![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/565476157eb3895a9c928ffce26d988d.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
14 Feb
2007
14 Feb
'07
11:18 a.m.
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
I guess someone made the requirements in 1950 or 1960, and others are blindly copying them. Maybe, I should typeset everything in monotype font :)
I remember we had a ball-based typewriter at Kluwer Academic that had variable width characters as well as different fonts: one per ball. We had a whole bunch of these balls in a cardboard box. So maybe, they even had variant widths like Times10 @ 10cpi, Times10 @ 12cpi ? Best, Taco