- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 22:20:33 -0500
- To: mudws@mail.olemiss.edu
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
From: Warren Steel <mudws@mail.olemiss.edu> | > If you say that a document is just words and that it is | >equivalent in any displayed form, thousands of years of human history | >say you're wrong. | | Thousands of years? Did David choose his fonts? or Homer, Sappho, | Confucius, Dante, or Chaucer? These all lived before the advent of | printing, and had little control over any manuscripts that circulated | even in their own time. ... --- Eh? While all of those authors did not choose their own fonts, the people who prepared them for publication (or, in earlier days, copied them out for distribution) certainly did agonize over the appropriate form for presentation. One could belabor the point by wondering whether Homer's words would be with us now if he had been in the habit of presenting his tale in an uninflected monotone. People who think typography doesn't matter probably also believe that authors don't really need editors and that full-text searching can be a satisfactory substitute for competent indexing. They're wrong. 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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