David W. Fenton wrote:
But it's the numbers *without* descenders, and that all have the same
width that are the aberration in the history of typesetting, because
they were created for computer use, so you type columns of numbers in
your word processing documents and have then line up.
Type with uniform widths for each character were _not_ created for
computer use. And they're older than Schole's invention, the typewriter,
too. I've seen two hundred year old books with numbers aligned in
columns, and while the characters themselves may not be of constant
width, the bodies upon which they were cast, were.
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