- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 08:59:11 -0500
- To: bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com
- Cc: reddik@thegroup.net, stephanos@hol.gr, www-style@w3.org
From: bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com (Jon Bosak) | | Actually (not that it matters), Cummings almost undoubtedly wrote the | poem on a typewriter and submitted it to his publisher as a | typewritten manuscript -- in other words, monospaced. So recreating | his manuscript using PRE and a monospace font would probably come as | close as you could get to what he originally had in mind. --- It may have looked like the pysical presentation he sent to his published, but I doubt it was "what he had in mind." I really have no idea whether cummings typically submitted work in hand or typed. In either case, though, I imagine he knew quite well what it would look like typeset... scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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