From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 19 11:33:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from gadolinium.btinternet.com (gadolinium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A4637B423 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:33:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from birminghamweb@freeuk.com) Received: from [213.122.63.49] (helo=host213-122-63-49.btinternet.com) by gadolinium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #83) id 14qJFA-0006uz-00 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:33:29 +0100 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:33:11 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew McKay X-Sender: birminghamweb@fluoxetine.openirc.co.uk To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: banner(6) In-Reply-To: <15071.4885.960509.549593@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. *************************************** Andrew McKay Located near Birmingham, England Catalogue available on request *************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message