On Friday 14 December 2012 09:56:29 Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> [121214 09:16]:
> > On Wednesday 12 December 2012 21:43:38 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > For about the last half hour, I have been getting the following errors
> > > when trying first to install, then to repair, amarok-trinity:
>
> ...
>
> > It says:
> > org/ squeeze
> > where it should say
> > org/squeeze
> >
> > I.e. there was an extraneous space.
>
> This is one reason to use a fixed-width font such as courier when
> reading, composing, and editing system files.
>

I do.  But it is not necessarily free from PEBKAC. :-(  The fault was mine, 
not my editor's.

> Proportion sans-serif fonts are notorious not only for the failure to
> clearly indicate spaces, but also for making it almost impossible to
> discern the difference between characters such as the numeral 1 and
> the lower-case letter l, and the numeral 0 and the capital letter O.

Lisi


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