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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Font behaviour
Date: Wed,  6 Feb 2002 09:33:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C60DC77.F099F721@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34fa0649f0edeb10b2f67a3a4f9f71fc@plan9.bell-labs.com>

rob pike wrote:
> 1) characters absent from the font are by definition zero-width.

There's another usurpation of a meaningful in-band value
to signal an exception.  We gotta cut that out, it causes
trouble eventually in almost every case I've ever sen.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-06  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-05 17:22 rob pike
2002-02-06  9:33 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2002-02-06 10:52   ` Boyd Roberts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-08  1:06 okamoto
2002-02-08  9:58 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-02-06 12:53 rob pike
2002-02-06 13:03 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-07  9:56   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-02-07 10:43     ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-06 12:16 rob pike
2002-02-05 16:39 Graham Gallagher

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