On 12/22/2012 03:45 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
2012-12-22 23:56, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
I figure the people on this list can truly appreciate this:
I don’t. You are posting an excerpt from a copyrighted book as such, not
as a legal quotation for an acceptable purpose. Moreover, you have
distorted the text. For example:
Homo Sapiens is a species that writes.
The original text has correctly “Homo sapiens” (in italic; omitting
italic is acceptable in a plain text medium, but introducing wrong case
of a letter is not).
computer -- a tool
The original correctly uses an em dash there.
From the book "Fonts & Encodings" by Yannis Haralambous
It’s a good book, but the start of the introduction is not its best part.
Yucca
I do not appreciate your response to this post, which appears to me to
have been done in good faith. I don't have the sense that your response
was.
