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On Mar 21, 5:08*pm, Michael Press wrote:
First, I worship at The Church of the Seven Bit ASCII. That said, Macintosh computers from day one to this have a live keyboard ....... and a few common ligatures. * * æ ¦ Þ*þ Alas, no ff, probably my favorite. Eh? Just install a fractional font, usually named "professional", and you get all the ligatures, including ff. Whether you will be able to send it from your Mac over the internet to the mass of PCs using Windoze is another story... Andre Jute http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/B...20CYCLING.html |
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, Andre Jute wrote: On Mar 21, 5:08*pm, Michael Press wrote: First, I worship at The Church of the Seven Bit ASCII. That said, Macintosh computers from day one to this have a live keyboard ....... and a few common ligatures. * * æ ¦ Þ*þ Alas, no ff, probably my favorite. Eh? Just install a fractional font, usually named "professional", and you get all the ligatures, including ff. Whether you will be able to send it from your Mac over the internet to the mass of PCs using Windoze is another story... For real work I code it in LaTeX. The source is, guess what? seven bit ascii. For instance I will download a text from Project Gutenberg, such as Northanger Abbey. Then tweak a perl script to put in the right codings and do chapter separation, and run it through a TeX engine. The engine will do total page layout on a book in a couple seconds. No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her. Her father was a clergyman, without being neglected, or poor, and a very respectable man, though his name was Richard---and he had never been handsome. He had a considerable independence besides two good livings---and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters. Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution. She had three sons before Catherine was born; and instead of dying in bringing the latter into the world, as anybody might expect, she still lived on---lived to have six children more---to see them growing up around her, and to enjoy excellent health herself. A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number; but the Morlands had little other right to the word, for they were in general very plain, and Catherine, for many years of her life, as plain as any. She had a thin awkward figure, a sallow skin without colour, dark lank hair, and strong features---so much for her person; and not less unpropitious for heroism seemed her mind. She was fond of all boy's plays, and greatly preferred cricket not merely to dolls, but to the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary--bird, or watering a rose--bush. -- Michael Press |
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"Michael Press" wrote in message ... In article , Andre Jute wrote: On Mar 21, 5:08 pm, Michael Press wrote: First, I worship at The Church of the Seven Bit ASCII. That said, Macintosh computers from day one to this have a live keyboard ....... and a few common ligatures. æ ¦ Þ þ Alas, no ff, probably my favorite. Eh? Just install a fractional font, usually named "professional", and you get all the ligatures, including ff. Whether you will be able to send it from your Mac over the internet to the mass of PCs using Windoze is another story... For real work I code it in LaTeX. The source is, guess what? seven bit ascii. For instance I will download a text from Project Gutenberg, such as Northanger Abbey. Then tweak a perl script to put in the right codings and do chapter separation, and run it through a TeX engine. The engine will do total page layout on a book in a couple seconds. No one cares about **** like this except for some very dumb and stupid scholarly types. Why don't you get a life instead of ****ing it away on nonsense? No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her. Her father was a clergyman, without being neglected, or poor, and a very respectable man, though his name was Richard---and he had never been handsome. He had a considerable independence besides two good livings---and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters. Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution. She had three sons before Catherine was born; and instead of dying in bringing the latter into the world, as anybody might expect, she still lived on---lived to have six children more---to see them growing up around her, and to enjoy excellent health herself. A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number; but the Morlands had little other right to the word, for they were in general very plain, and Catherine, for many years of her life, as plain as any. She had a thin awkward figure, a sallow skin without colour, dark lank hair, and strong features---so much for her person; and not less unpropitious for heroism seemed her mind. She was fond of all boy's plays, and greatly preferred cricket not merely to dolls, but to the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary--bird, or watering a rose--bush. Michael Press You had better be careful or I am going to start posting voluminous excerpts from Toynbee's "Study of History" about the import of the Muslim conquests from the time of Mohammed. Or maybe you would prefer to hear about the decline and fall of the Roman Empire according to Edward Gibbon? Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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"Edward Dolan" wrote: You had better be careful or I am going to start posting voluminous excerpts from Toynbee's "Study of History" about the import of the Muslim conquests from the time of Mohammed. Or maybe you would prefer to hear about the decline and fall of the Roman Empire according to Edward Gibbon? The former. Already read the latter. -- Michael Press |
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"Michael Press" wrote in message ... In article , "Edward Dolan" wrote: You had better be careful or I am going to start posting voluminous excerpts from Toynbee's "Study of History" about the import of the Muslim conquests from the time of Mohammed. Or maybe you would prefer to hear about the decline and fall of the Roman Empire according to Edward Gibbon? The former. Already read the latter. If you have read the latter, then you know enough to find your way around libraries and books. I commend Toynbee to you as he is strictly a big picture historian and you will not be wasting your time on minutiae as it seems you are prone to do. Or do you think you are going to live forever and can afford to waste your time on esoteric nonsense? Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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