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Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '.
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '. |
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Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:42:35 +0100 (CET) |
> It's called Sun Gallant Demi
Thanks.
> (or simply "Gallant", as no other weights or variations of it
> exist). It's the default console font of SPARC workstations and
> SunOS/Solaris;
OK.
> OpenBSD used to use it, until they switched to a much blander
> console font <https://github.com/fcambus/spleen>.
Not my taste... – additionally, ` and ' are no longer symmetric.
> It's the only fixed-pitch serif typeface I've seen that pulls that
> look off naturally.
To summarize: It seems that there is only a single platform left today
that by default uses a bitmap font for terminals with symmetric ` and
' characters. This sort-of proves my point, doesn't it?
Werner
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., G. Branden Robinson, 2020/11/01
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., Jan Stary, 2020/11/01
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., Werner LEMBERG, 2020/11/01
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., John Gardner, 2020/11/01
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., Werner LEMBERG, 2020/11/01
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., John Gardner, 2020/11/01
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '.,
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., John Gardner, 2020/11/02
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., Ingo Schwarze, 2020/11/02
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., John Gardner, 2020/11/02
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., Ingo Schwarze, 2020/11/03
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., John Gardner, 2020/11/04
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., James K. Lowden, 2020/11/03
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., Werner LEMBERG, 2020/11/02
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., Ingo Schwarze, 2020/11/02
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., Jan Stary, 2020/11/02
- Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '., Larry Kollar, 2020/11/02