On 01/04/2004 22:55, Doug Ewell wrote:
...And maybe it's just my lack of creative thinking, but I certainly can't
imagine a proportional font on a ZX80 or ZX81 -- not on that blocky
24-line screen!
Stretching of spaces does not depend on having a proportional font. On
modern systems spaces are stretched in justified text even if the font
is fixed space - try Courier New on Windows. The ZX8* probably could not
even do that, as I guess characters had to be placed in a grid. But I
remember from even before those days (but on a mainframe) a program
which would justify printed text in a grid, by a real line printer, by
replacing single spaces by double or triple as necessary. A fixed width
space would presumably resist this kind of stretching by multiplication,
as well as the neater incremental stretching of more sophisticated systems.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
TS1000 user, 1983-1986
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