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On 2015-02-08, <wabenbau@×××××.com> <wabenbau@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 |
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> schrieb Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>: |
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>> On 08/02/2015 13:00, 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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>> > |
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>> >> I've always been puzzled by that form of zero, and recently since |
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>> >> it 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 |
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>> > the only reliable way to distinguish between a zero and a capital |
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>> > o. Less useful nowadays and many fonts no longer use it. |
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>> > |
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>> > |
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>> |
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>> I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least |
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>> with a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remember if the |
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>> digit is the fat one or the thin one |
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> It's the same with me. :-) |
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Me too. |
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