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My Mac Hate right now is the fact that you CAN'T get Mail.app to let
you edit a response a plain text, no matter how hard you try... it
still replaces leading "> > > " with stupid colored bars and forces you
to have to edit around them very very carefully to do a normal inline
reply. However...
> \{fi}rst, to Jeremy, I apologize: while /normally/ Macs have kerned f
> and i together (as Wikipedia said), in this case it is actually
> replacing the "fi" with a ligature.
Well, yeh, it would have to be. I can't see how there can be any
kerning in a fixed font.
> Observe the hate: http://rjbs.manxome.org/hates/safari
Courier is hateful in so many ways. The abominable stroke fonts that
were the first digital versions of Courier took an ugly but at least
well-formed font and not only made it uglier but they destroyed all the
fine detail of the font. Then there was the proliferation of versions
of Courier with different weights and aspect ratios and often missing
important visual cues. Then they got "enhanced" in all kinds of strange
ways... like, adding ligatures? Jesus!
I don't know if there's a version of Courier that's anything like the
Courier you got on an IBM typeball, but there's sure a lot of really
screwed up fonts called Courier, and they're all ugly as sin. Give me
Letter Gothic or even Prestige any day.
On my Mac I have "Courier" and "Courier New". I use Monaco and Lucida
Sans Typewriter.
So...
Which Courier are you using, and why are you using Courier at all?
There's stuff above here
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