- From: Carl Morris <msftrncs@htcnet.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:46:30 -0600
- To: "WWW Style List" <www-style@w3.org>, "WWW HTML List" <www-html@w3.org>
I am an amateur radio operator and the more pages I put up about amateur radio the more I would like to put the slashes in the zero's amateurs commonly use. However most fonts on the PC don't include a slash, not to mention that would limit me to a particular font. I have thought about using CSS to backup and place the slash over the zero, not sure that is a great idea though. I was wondering if any future font specification was going to address this. Then maybe I could use something like &szero; in HTML, a browser that can't choose between the zero's just places a "0" there while others go and get the one with a slash. Slashes are commonly used and needed due to the difficulty of detecting the zero among other alphabetic characters, such as in my call sign in the signature of this message. I also kinda wonder what happened to the FONT stuff we all heard so much about a year ago. Please readdress replies to the proper of the two lists, or e-mail me only if its not proper in either list. I don't care to be personally double mailed. -|- Carl Morris (N0YUV) -|- 1:285/302 -|- msftrncs@htcnet.com -|- -|- Hooper Connections BBS -|- 1-(402)-654-2102 -|- 28.8kbps V.34 -|- -|- http://199.120.83.179/~moreese/ -|- telnet://199.120.83.179 -|- -|- Internet addresses valid from 4pm to midnight CST (UTC -0600) -|-
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