Hello,
On 2024-01-29 15:29, Franco Martelli wrote:
On 26/01/24 at 20:50, David Wright wrote:
I'll give a shout-out for Hack,¹ which I can't fault for use in
xterms. Comparing xterm -geometry 80x25+0+0 -fa hack -fs 16
with xterm -geometry 80x25+0+0 -fa inconsolata -fs 18
(to make the sizes roughly the same), I find the inconsolata
stroke width on the basic Roman alphabet is a little spindly.
Other criticisms are that the stroke widths (and even the size)
later in the table (eg 0x256–1312) are thicker or larger, and
many single-width characters are slightly oversize and get
truncated at the top & right (eg Ŵ at 0x372, Lj 456). Mixing
fractions is ugly, too: ½ ⅓ ⅔ ¼ ¾ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞. The ‘’ quotes
are pretty, though.
Those symbols are very nice, which tool have you used to insert them?
I'm using Thunderbird for my emails but I've to enable "Compose
message in HTML" to have a small subset of symbols, for me isn't
enough. I'm using KDE desktop.
Thanks in advance, best regards.
You shouldn't need HTML email to have fractions, they are part of
Unicode.
You don't need any specific tool to insert them either.
But you do need to enable/define Compose key, if it's not enabled in
your system already
You get those by Compose key + 1 + 2 should produce ½. Compose key + 1 +
3 gives you ⅓, Compose key + 2 + 5 outputs ⅖… and so on, works for ⅚, ⅞…
as well. Basically for whatever fraction that is part of Unicode.
And since it's Unicode, it also works outside of email/web/HTML.
Plaintext file included.
