the solution is
to just stop worrying and love
the bitmap font because there
are more important things
in life.
such as not inserting spurious
new lines
in mailing list posts.
On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Albert Skye wrote:
erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:
The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
poor special effects?
it's just resting!
but maybe it should die
yes
no "modern GUI", &c.
(and I'm grateful for that! :)
but Plan 9 (and other software)
can be much more useful by exposition
within a *typographical interface*
i.e.,
an interface
informed by typographical imperative[1]
(to increase signal
decrease noise)
in
arranging streams
(of text/numbers/symbols/images
outputs and inputs)
using established patterns
of typographical technology
for
improving the interface/tools
between process and user
to make it
natural/immediate/effortless
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style
