Re: [dev] [st] bold as bright (again)

On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:56 pm, Stefan Mark wrote:

> On 01.04.2011 15:50, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
>>
>> On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:06 pm, pancake wrote:
>>>
>>> You may see some other differences... and the missuse of bright
>>> when bold
>>> sometimes hurts my eyes... but some programs just are hard to read
>>> without
>>> it...
>>
>> Why does no-one ever seem to consider just not using programs
>> which are
>> broken this badly, or at least filing serious bug reports on them?
>> It's
>
> They are not broken. As far as i understand it, both ways are correct.
> Early terminals did not have bold fonts, so bold text was done using
> higher brightness (which actually looked bold on these Eye burning
> machines).

If "eye burning" is not broken, what is? That's my point.
Received on Fri Apr 01 2011 - 16:01:45 CEST