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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: [TMG-L:] Re: TMG-L: Re: -printing from computer input
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 22:06:40 -0700
References: <007301bfb4b8$7d9bae00$d4e5fea9@billjohn>

Wrong! We use computers and computer-type faces exclusively. There is no
such thing anymore as a "typewriter" (practically speaking). Do a text
yourself. Type a paragraph. Copy it so you have it repeated on your page
twice. Make one 10 point and one 12 point. Print them out and decide for
yourself which is easier to read.

Large type books are written in typefaces larger than 12 point. Standard
business letters that you receive are done in 12 point type. It IS the
business standard. The courts in Washington state have even mandated a type
size of 12 point in all documents, except for the federal courts which use
14 point! Now 14 point DOES look like large type books.

Also 12 point fonts from one font may not be comparable in appearance to 12
points of another font. I used to have my own desktop publishing business
and worked at a law school preparing camera-ready copy of their law review
and, without exception, body text was created in 12 point font. Smaller
fonts were used for footnotes and the like.


----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Johnson <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Re: -printing from computer input


>
> Cheri wrote:
>
> >My only comment is that I would go with a 12 point typeface, not 10. 12
> >point is the "standard"; do a test for yourself and look at 10 point
versus
> >12 point. 10 point is almost unreadable (at least to mature eyes, even
> with
> >glasses) As a teacher of keyboarding, formatting & word processing we
> >require our students to use 12 point.
> >
> Maybe so, but I think this is for 'typewritten' type text. Very, very few
> books, other than Large-Type books, are printed in anything near as large
as
> 12 point.
>
> Bill J.
>
>
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