From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 19 11:27:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B8F237B42C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:27:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 59266 invoked by uid 100); 19 Apr 2001 18:27:47 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15071.11811.739901.773677@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:27:47 -0500 To: Brett Glass Cc: Mike Meyer , Jamie Bowden , James Howard , Rahul Siddharthan , Joseph Mallett , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419120132.0442a560@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419092019.04484770@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419120132.0442a560@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass 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. 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