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Subject:Re: block lettering (readability) From:Bonni Graham <Bonni_Graham_at_Enfin-SD -at- RELAY -dot- PROTEON -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 8 Nov 1993 14:49:00 EST
LaVonna writes:
>Apparently all the stuff that comes in "over the wire" are in all
>caps, too. Ditto for teleprompters.
FYI -- It comes in that way on teleprompters because it forces you to SLOW DOWN
while you're reading, and thus while you're speaking.
Bonni Graham | font, n. Loosely, a typeface
Technical Writer | or family of typefaces. A
Easel Corporation, ENFIN Technology Lab | bit-mapped font is one that
Bonni_Graham_at_Enfin-SD -at- relay -dot- proteon -dot- com | displays a typeface on the
President, San Diego STC | screen of a computer. Type-
| faces for laser printers,
NOTE: apparently my email address needs | which must be kept in
to be typed exactly as it appears here, | the Blessed System
punctuation and all, or the system gets | Folder, are known as bap-
upset. | tismal fonts.
| --Ezra Shapiro
