On 08/02/2015 13:00, 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. > >
I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least with a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remember if the digit is the fat one or the thin one -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
