Re: RE: First of many newbie questions

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Jun 17 2001 - 08:20:12 EDT


At 18:45 -0700 2001-06-16, John Hudson wrote:
>At 17:34 6/16/2001 -0700, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote:
>
>>The real world does foolish things like
>>use standard keyboards that do not lie to us with what we type, on top of
>>standard fonts that do not try to fool us into type things we do not want.
>
>True, but I must admit to being tempted to use an OpenType lookup to
>make it impossible for a user to type more than one ! in a row.

Not the worst sin!! And since no one uses the interrobang, sometimes
the use of combinations of ! and ? can be extremely useful.

The worst sin is Zapf Chancery set in all caps. Now there's something
an Open Type lookup ought to cure....

-- 
Michael Everson



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