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11.1.1 PostScript Fonts and NExS

   

PostScript Fonts are used by NExS to define the appearance of the spreadsheet of the display in addition to the default type of printed output. These fonts are defined by three font characteristics: family, style, and size.

Font Family

   

NExS lets you choose a Font Family for Cell Defaults and allows you to override the default on a cell-by-cell basis. The most popular font families are supported.

Font Style

   

Font style is typically defined as normal, bold, italic, or bold-italic. NExS lets you choose a Font Style for Cell Defaults and allows you to override the default on a cell-by-cell basis.

Font Size

   

Type size is entered in points, on a scale of 72 points per inch. As a guide, remember that standard typewriter Courier is 12-point type. Most type you read in newspapers and magazines is 9, 10, or 11 point type. NExS allows you to select from several font sizes.

Proportional Spacing

   

Typewriters typically used fixed-width spacing, that is, the I occupies the same amount of space as the M and W. The NExS PostScript fonts, except Courier, use proportional spacing. In order to correctly calculate line widths when each character occupies a different amount of space, NExS refers to the Adobe Font Metric files which are built into NExS.


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NExS User's Guide, Version 1.4.5
Grey Trout Software
11 April 1999