Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:33:11 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew McKay <birminghamweb@freeuk.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104191923120.6961-100000@fluoxetine.openirc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <15071.4885.960509.549593@guru.mired.org>
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MM> Just because non-scalable fonts (someone got a better retronym?) don't
MM> produce many fonts doesn't mean that scalable fonts can't, in much the
MM> same way that analog watches always having hands don't mean that
MM> digital watches have to have them.
It does if you use 'watch' to define 'a device to indicate the passage of
time using hands pointing at numbers' and 'wibble' to define 'a device
used to indicate the passage of time using electronic digits'. If the 'a
rendering of a typeface in a specific size and weight' then a 'scalable
font' is as oxymoronic as 'a static perambulator', 'a plastic glass' or
the old favourite 'military intelligence'. This is especially true seeing
as the word 'typeface' exists to define 'the information dictating the
style of a font'. I *think* that's the point Brett has been trying to
make.
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