Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Re: Everyone has his own favorite nits Message-ID: <1255@uw-beaver> Date: Thu, 30-May-85 04:08:26 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1255 Posted: Thu May 30 04:08:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Jun-85 00:33:24 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 10 From: trwrb!trwspp!spp3!urban@Berkeley (Mike Urban) As long as someone is criticizing the "amtt" ("cmtt"? are they the same?) font, I'd like to add that the left and right single-quote characters are too hard to distinguish at a glance, and the tilde, which is only rarely used as an accent in this font, is rather difficult to decipher in Unixy examples like " ~uucp/foo ". Probably an alternate tilde character should be available somewhere in this font, or maybe the regular tilde should be lowered and exaggerated, and pray that nobody tries to use it as an accent?