From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: uppercase var names in docstrings
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:44:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041022224418.GC5437@fencepost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00a101c4b887$271156c0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488>
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:33:12AM +0200, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> : > maybe bold italics is less rugged than just italics?
> :
> : Ha ha, try "much more"...
>
> They are less rugged, statistically. That is of course what counts. They
> just looks more rugged.
Huh? Can you give some basis for that statement?
The "ruggedness" I assume that's being talked about comes from lots of
non-straight lines in the characters, and bold-italic has the same general
shape as the italic -- and so the same non-straight lines. However in many
bold-italic fonts, instead of just a simple single-pixel (jagged) line, you
actually end up with an attempt to represent a thicker line of varying
thickness, which ends up looking even worse.
-Miles
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-22 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 20:10 uppercase var names in docstrings Stefan
2004-10-22 20:30 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-22 20:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-22 22:26 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-22 22:28 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-22 22:33 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-22 22:44 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-10-22 21:52 ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-22 22:36 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-22 23:27 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-23 13:54 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-23 0:42 ` Kenichi Handa
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