Re: the Courier font family and nroff history

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "GB" == G Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> writes:

GR> I don't think Adobe standardized it
GR> for PostScript (and then PDF) for the _sole_ purpose of simulating
GR> terminal emulator, or even typewriter, output.

As I recall, it has frequently been posted over the years that the
selection of fonts which were included on Apple's laserwriter were
chosen by them and not be adobe.

Adobe offerred options; apple selected from those options.

So blame Jobs for Courier as the monospace family and for Times(12) as
the serif family.  And for Helvetica as the Sans family.

-JimC
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