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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 05:11:35
Message-Id: 4669904.zrK9KdPvoY@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font by Neil Bothwick
1 On Sunday 08 February 2015 23:23:34 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:50:57 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > > > I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at
4 > > > > least
5 > > > > with a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remember if
6 > > > > the
7 > > > > digit is the fat one or the thin one
8 > > >
9 > > > It's the same with me. :-)
10 > >
11 > > I'd have thought it was easy enough: the zero is the same width as
12 > > the other numerals. The O is bigger.
13 >
14 > Not in a proportional font it ain't :P
15
16 You're as bad as me :P
17
18 In a mono font the O looks bigger because it fills more of the "tile",
19 so just remember The Big O.
20
21 --
22 Rgds
23 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>