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RE: death to word



--- On Thu, 4/19/12, Paul Ambos  wrote:

> That is the confusion:  "pitch"
> is a horizontal -- not vertical --
> measurement of fonts, usually expressed in characters per
> inch.  Some
> typesetting programs (but not XyWrite) can adjust the pitch
> (as opposed to
> character width) by inserting microspacing between the
> letters. 

And this can be confused with kerning, which I think Xy never
had. (I don't know about Nota Bene, which I have just begun
to use -- mainly for printing out things where Xy would
have no easily accessible solution for recent model printers
or their being connected via USB.)


 Jordan