At 10:07 AM 10/24/06 +0100, Ken Moore wrote: >Comrie seemed to think (c.1940) that they were an >objectionable American innovation. I am interested in the suggestion >that they were originally intended for titles. Publishers of books of >mathematical tables would presumably want to use the smallest characters >that were still legible enough not to cause eye-strain or misreading.
Bringhurst identifies the titling numerical font for numbers in 1788, as part of a rising merchant class. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
