On Sunday 08 February 2015 11:00:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the > > > slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how to remove > > > it. > > > > I've always been puzzled by that form of zero, and recently since it > > started causing me difficulty I've come to loathe it. :-( > > It dates back to the days when fonts were much coarser and it was the > only reliable way to distinguish between a zero and a capital o. Less > useful nowadays and many fonts no longer use it.
Yes, I know, but I can't see why it's survived so long after it stopped being useful. Never mind. We are where we are. -- Rgds Peter.
