Re: OT: typewriter LaTeX package

[shane]

Agreed, however this does a bang up job of doing up very early period print such especially incunabula period or really any type that was set where the slugs were not exactly identical an therefore didn't fit in the form perfectly. 

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Date: 2/16/18 1:01 PM (GMT-05:00)

To: Shane Brandes <address@hidden>

Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm <address@hidden>, lilypond-user Mailinglist <address@hidden>

Subject: Re: OT: typewriter LaTeX package

On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Shane Brandes wrote:
> Got it to work. Figured out you can change to what ever font you want
> in the sty file. Lessening the the grayscale variability and some of
> the other variables with the use of a historical font yields really
> convincing period style documents. This is absolutely great.

Really real typewritten documents wouldn't have every instance of every
letter shifted independently at random as this package does, though.
Instead, individual typewriters would have unique but systematic
distortions.  Maybe on my typewriter, each "e" would be a little lower
than the baseline and each "T" would be tiled three degrees; and on your
typewriter it would be some other distinctive pattern.  These kinds of
things were important in forensic analysis as a way of identifying which
typewriter was used to produce a document.

When it comes to fonts, at one point when I needed a nice-looking
simulated typewriter font I ended up licensing Underwood Typewriter from
Vintage Type, who used to be at vintagetype.com but now don't seem to be
on the Web.  I don't know if that means they're out of business.  The site
at vintagetype.co doesn't seem to be the same company.

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Matthew Skala
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