Re: CAN'T PASTE!

In article <672c49$77l$3...@usenet87.supernews.com>, aardvarko writes:
>
>Fixed width fonts date back from the days when computers couldn't do
>anything better; i.e. MS-DOS. Pretty much the only reason they still
>survive is ASCII art and cross-platform compatibility. (i.e. ASCII art
>looks the same on a Mac as on a PC)

On the contrary, I would expect the bag of tricks of any basic
typesetting program to include "typewriter effect", and quite
possibly a basic newsprint monotype e.g. Times Monotype.
If you've only got 10 or 12 fonts my betting is it has:

their favourite serifed newsprint, probably Times New Roman
their favourite Sans Serif, looks suspiciously like Helvetica
the Eurostyle S.Serif family because it's just so versatile
something to use for a Serifed Headline font, like Bookman
something very heavy, like stencil type. 
a script font
a typewriter font
ringlets, everybody does ringlets (variously named)
playbill type, because everybody recognises it
gothic (old english) type, gawd knows why as nobody likes it.

Am I missing anything obvius?

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