Interesting I would never have considered print publishing. That said.
Was this configurable and what percentage of users were concerned with producing print copy? In what eras?
I would but that these individuals were always a minority and the arrangement appears to be inferior for the majority of users for the majority of the time it was a factor.
This was a Steve Jobs obsession from his first calligraphy class at Reed College. Proper proportional fonts were built in with the original Macintosh - this wasn't something he was going to do a market analysis on to decide for him.
However historically this was less problematic because screens were fuzzier anyways. It was only with LCDs that the anti aliasing became obvious.
Was this configurable and what percentage of users were concerned with producing print copy? In what eras?
I would but that these individuals were always a minority and the arrangement appears to be inferior for the majority of users for the majority of the time it was a factor.