On 2015-02-08, <waben...@gmail.com> <waben...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. :-)
Me too.
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