--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "i18n@..." <i18n@...> wrote:

>
> PS - not sure if this is better for this list or for vellum (which

I am

> not on) or both, but this just occurred to me while writing about

large

> headline on qalam -
>
> To what extent do various writing systems and their fonts use more

or

> less ink in a production heavy environment such as daily

newspapers or

> books? Seems as if there is a variation in ink usage and

production

> effort of just a few percent between some serif and some other non-

serif

> font, that might make a difference to a newspaper these days or in

days

> of yore. Does anyone have any info?

No, but this article emphasizes the constraints of typesetting on
devanagari.

The graphic artist Kirti Trivedi, whom Jeffrey describes as
being "active in redesigning Indian newspapers," has been quite
critical of printing that uses metal casting, requiring, as it does,
a violent reshaping of the Devanagari script. But Trivedi has no
qualms about computer typesetting. In his paper "Iconography of
Letterforms," which he presented in 1990 at Association
Typographique Internationale's Type 90 conference in Oxford,
England, Trivedi writes, "The new technological developments in
typesetting have finally removed all constraints which inhibited the
development of Devanagari script." Certain that the new technology
will restore the script to its former glory, Trivedi predicted
that "new Devanagari seeds will sprout again."

http://www.honco.net/os/index_0403.html

Suzanne