Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:27:47 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, James Howard <howardjp@well.com>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <15071.11811.739901.773677@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419120132.0442a560@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419092019.04484770@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10104181512060.71134-100000@moo.sysabend.org> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104180641460.517-100000@well.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419120132.0442a560@localhost>
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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> types: > >You are answering a question that I didn't ask you, and wasn't > >directed at you. > I'm responding to an incorrect assertion about something I said > (or, rather, didn't say). Oh? What was the assertion? You quoted a question asked of someone else, then claimed you hadn't said any such thing. No one ever claimed you had said any such thing. > >So the non-scalable bitmaps that uses to display characters should be > >called a "typeface"? Since they are also digital, wouldn't "digital > >typeface" also be correct? > Technically, these are fonts because they are already rendered. You > may find these included with a digital typeface, though only > occasionally. In which case, a scalable font is a font because it's a rendering of the typeface. > >You're not refuting what I said, you're quibbling about the > >terminology. > I'm not "quibbling" about terminology. I'm describing the > correct use of the terms. Now you're quibbling about the meaning of quibbling. You haven't provided anything that even *remotely* looks like correct use of the terms; you've merely made assertions without providing any reasons, while ignoring the reasons I've provided for the common useage being correct. Since that seems to be the endpoint of *any* discussion with you, I'm not going to bother replying to another round of quibbling. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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