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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: expr failure
To: somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu (William R. Somsky)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:17:32 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199703101854.KAA23733@dirac.phys.washington.edu> from "William R. Somsky" at Mar 10, 97 10:54:42 am
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> > in netscape these will be the same  ` '
> > but I typed them differntly.. (duh)
> 
> I've seen fonts where the ` (grave accent) and ' (single quote) are
> almost indistinguishable: ie instead of looking something like:
> 
>      ****                    ****
>        ***        and       ***
>          **                **
>            *              *
> 
> they look something like:
> 
> 
>            *               ****
>          **      and      ***
>        ***               **
>      ****               *
> 
> Which at a small size are _very_ hard to tell apart.

There are a number of X11 fonts where the bitmaps are identical (this
is an error in the font).  One of them is "fixed", the default font
for everything.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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