[XeTeX] Palatino, clones and it's Greek to me (was Re: Package geometry with XeTeX)

[William Adams]

On Jul 18, 2006, at 9:08 AM, Adam Twardoch wrote:

> The difference being, that FPL Neu is a non-nasty knock-off of  
> Palatino,
> as opposed to Book Antiqua being a "nasty knock-off"?

Well, Prof. Zapf didn't quit his membership in ATypI over URW's  
clone, but did over Monotype's Book Antiqua.

As I recall, the crux of his complaint was that Book Antiqua  
mindlessly preserved the limitations of the 18-unit spacing system  
for no good reason at all.

By contrast he praised Bitstream's Zapf Calligraphic (this was noted  
in _Publisher's Weekly_ if memory serves) since it didn't preserve such.

Some of this is in the Palatino FAQ:

http://www.mindspring.com/~fez/palatino/palfaq1.0.txt

William

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William Adams
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Fry Communications



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