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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] /lib/font fonts in troff
Date: Tue,  1 Jul 2008 17:37:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DE0E30E2-B27C-4A25-97FB-F57684EB904D@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080701151735.DA0391E8C1C@holo.morphisms.net>

To be honest, it's that 1 glyph that I prefer. It looks much more
unambiguous than the one in troff's CW and you can find it in just
about any Bell Labs-produced book that uses the font.

On Jul 1, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Russ Cox wrote:

>
> P. S.  I don't know what font is in /lib/font/bit/courier,
> but it's not exactly Courier.  The A is missing the top serif
> and the @ is much squarer than the usual Courier.
>




      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-01  3:05 Pietro Gagliardi
2008-07-01 15:19 ` Russ Cox
2008-07-01 21:37   ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]

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