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

On 01.04.2011 16:01, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
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> On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:56 pm, Stefan Mark wrote:
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>> On 01.04.2011 15:50, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
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>>> On 1 Apr 2011, at 2:06 pm, pancake wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>
Some people like it, some dont. It fits the standard (i think, seems a
bit complicated).
Received on Fri Apr 01 2011 - 16:07:28 CEST