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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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Neil Bothwick |
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Format: (v.) to erase irrevocably and unintentionally. |
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(n.) The process of such erasure. |
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