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On Sunday 08 February 2015 11:00:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the |
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> > > slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how to remove |
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> > > it. |
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> > I've always been puzzled by that form of zero, and recently since it |
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> > started causing me difficulty I've come to loathe it. :-( |
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> It dates back to the days when fonts were much coarser and it was the |
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> only reliable way to distinguish between a zero and a capital o. Less |
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> useful nowadays and many fonts no longer use it. |
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Yes, I know, but I can't see why it's survived so long after it stopped |
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being useful. |
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Never mind. We are where we are. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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