X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,20f0b31945f8b668 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-02 17:20:35 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!news.tele.dk!195.238.2.15!skynet.be!newsfeed01.tsnz.net!canterbury.ac.nz!not-for-mail From: Matthew Thomas Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: fonts?? Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:13:56 +1300 Organization: University of Canterbury (opinions expressed are my own) Lines: 21 Message-ID: <39D924CC.16940EF6@student.canterbury.ac.nz> References: <39d3ed52_2@news1.prserv.net> <39d640cd_2@news1.prserv.net> <3dictsglq7324er6uj6ib3j2sqe6ku8n0o@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.181.32.75 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:1505 Lauri Kangas wrote: >... > The only good thing in fixedsys is that it shows the ~ in the right > place, unlike Courier. > i.e. _.-~ looks right in fixedsys, but to get the same result in > courier, you must use _.-" >... Calling the top of the line the `right' place for a tilde is misguided at best, and flamebait at worst. It makes sense to put a tilde at the top of the line when it is part of another character, but when it is by itself neither the top nor the middle of the line is inherently the `right' place to put it. Indeed the venerable Concise Oxford Dictionary used to use the tilde as a short way of repeating the main word of an entry, and when they did so they put it in the middle of the line. -- Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla user interface QA