Re: To .jpg or not
Re: To .jpg or not
- Subject: Re: To .jpg or not
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:55:41 -0800
On Mar 22, 2004, at 5:10 AM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
There is NO Rule six!
Only two weapons: fear and surprise. ...and a ruthless efficiency.
Our THREE weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an
almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. Our FOUR... no... AMONGST our
weapons... amongst our weaponry... are such elements as fear,
surprise... I'll come in again.
What I *really* gag at is the use of grave accent ` as a fake left
quote, resulting in a geometrically-unbalanced "\***|" envelope in
most fonts. Anytime I download an RFC or man page with those
monstrosities, I do a bunch of search/replace operations to fix them.
It should be outlawed!
I'm not sure where this idea comes from, but in most cases it's
automatically generated by [tng]roff, which knows about real curly
quotes and is merely trying to approximate them in ASCII. If you feel
really strongly about it, you could modify the one on your system to
not do that, which would at least make local man pages palatable.
And some Cocoa programs try to "correct" straight quotes into curly
quotes ... It shows up when using ProFont 9 ...
It turns out that this isn't Cocoa (exactly), it's simply that Cocoa is
obeying glyph substitution features turned on in ProFont, while older
programs ignore them. (It's not a Cocoa-specific thing; you can see
the same behavior in any ATSUI-based application, such as WorldText.
The fact that ProFont has this sort of thing on by default is ironic
considering its stated purpose.) These days the standard Font palette
has a Typography palette which can turn the substitution on and off, or
you can munge the font to get rid of the features entirely. (Walter
already knows this, as it's in his bug, but I thought other people
might care.)
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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