Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30
schrieb Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>:

> 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

It's the same with me. :-) 


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