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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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>> 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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I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least with |
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a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remember if the digit is |
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the fat one or the thin one |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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