From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Improved (non-annoying) underlining
Date: 17 May 2000 10:27:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ya59fdzw.fsf@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of "17 May 2000 10:03:43 -0400"
Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:
> What would be meant by "boldface space character"? A space is the
> absence of any glyph in that character position. How would one make
> it "boldface" when the property of boldface means that the glyph is
> "thicker" ? There is no glyph to change.
It should be a thicker absence.
> Similarly, for consistency, what would an italicized space be?
A slanted absence. I'm not sure about smallcaps spaces, though.
> I'm confused.
(I think it was a joke.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-17 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-16 21:19 Karl Kleinpaste
2000-05-16 22:03 ` Shenghuo ZHU
2000-05-17 11:41 ` Bill White
2000-05-17 12:09 ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-05-17 12:26 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-05-17 15:37 ` Steinar Bang
2000-05-17 12:29 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2000-05-17 12:39 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-05-17 12:58 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2000-05-17 13:35 ` François Pinard
2000-05-17 13:55 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-17 14:03 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2000-05-17 14:27 ` Alan Shutko [this message]
2000-05-17 14:40 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-17 14:42 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2000-05-17 16:00 ` Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)
2000-05-17 14:08 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2000-05-17 14:32 ` Shenghuo ZHU
2000-05-17 14:29 ` Toby Speight
2000-05-17 15:22 ` Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)
2000-05-19 0:22 ` Russ Allbery
2000-05-19 1:41 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2000-05-19 2:09 ` Dan McGuirk
2000-05-19 4:56 ` Russ Allbery
2000-05-17 13:30 ` François Pinard
2000-05-17 14:28 ` Bill White
2000-05-17 14:33 ` Bill White
2000-05-17 14:34 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2000-05-17 18:05 ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-05-17 15:36 ` Indicating hidden threads (Was: Improved (non-annoying) ...) Steinar Bang
2000-05-17 16:07 ` Bill White
2000-05-17 20:13 ` Steinar Bang
2000-05-20 9:26 ` Rade Markovic
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