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John Cornelisse
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31/10/2014
wedges for Monotype
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March 24, 2016, 08:48:39 AM »
The "normal" wedges are needed inside the Composition caster, to adjust the width
of the characters in one row of a diecase.
Of these normal wedges there have been quite a number.
At David Bolton's Alembic-press site a lot of information can be found on them. see:
http://alembicpress.co.uk/Typecaster/stop.htm
But this list is far from complete.
There are S-numbers missing, and some other info is missing too:
Not all set-sizes were made for all wedges: some wedges were only made for even one size of font,
Large composition diecases were accompagniied by very special wedges, with an unique layout.
Recently I got from the Type-archyve some blades I would like to share.
starting with wedge S330, only made in a single set-size : 21 1/2 set
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Christophe Slychan
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26/01/2016
Re: wedges for Monotype
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March 24, 2016, 11:15:25 AM »
Thanks, it's always nice to add a new wedge definition
Does anyone know what the "9G" for 7th row on 791 means? The width is the same as "regular" 9 units for 6th row. How were they different?
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John Cornelisse
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Re: wedges for Monotype
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May 04, 2016, 09:59:17 AM »
Some more wedge definitions:
S1748 : 5 6 7 8 9 9 9 10 10 11 12 13 14 18 15
S1754 : 5 6 7 8 9 9 9 12 11 13 10 10 14 15 18
These two wedges have all the row-values of the S5-wedge in common !
S2519 : 8 5 6 7 7 9 9 10 10 11 17 18 13 15 14
The last wedge has even a stranger layout...
I suspect Monotype did play with this, in order to prevent their customers to lent any materials from each other. The many different layouts of diecases I did find, just made me think this way.
Each customer was forced to buy all materials and a complete equipment for the keyboard.
Just maximising the profits for the Monotype compagny.
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Dave Hughes
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21/06/2006
Re: wedges for Monotype
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August 11, 2019, 07:48:45 AM »
Does the post above make sense to anyone? Considering removing this person from the board.
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Christophe Slychan
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Re: wedges for Monotype
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Just a spammer who needs a ban.
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