RE: Rhetorical question about formatting devices :-)

Subject: RE: Rhetorical question about formatting devices :-)
From: Kim Roper <kim -dot- roper -at- vitana -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:20:57 -0400

Rob Domaschuk said:

> If you are using 12pt type for the body <<shudder>> then
> please don't use a mere 14pt for the heading. [...] Great care
> needs to be taken when determining the formatting style. (And
> no, I am not implying that anyone here isn't).
> There's a certain Gestalt approach that I
> think is helpful - the entire page needs to be a cohesive
> "picture" for the reader.
>
Great idea, except that you'd need a really tiny typeface to get the
requisite thousand words on a standard sheet. I suppose you could move to
bigger paper.

Cheers ... Kim
mailto:kim -dot- roper -at- vitana -dot- com

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