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Posted by Ben C on 06/01/07 07:12
On 2007-06-01, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit Ben C:
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>> Various websites do say [that the em unit is] a measure of width, e.g.
>> http://www.fontfactory.com/glossary.php.
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> There's a lot of bogus information around, and such statements are useful
> bogosity indicators. On that particular page, you can see other bogosity
> indicators as well, such as "Extended ASCII", "90Ί" (using masculine ordinal
> indicator instead of degree sign - and they claim to be "Type
> Professionals"!), "Circero" (for "Cicero"), etc.
Those are quite inexcuscable typos.
> - I stopped scanning when I saw a claim that the circumflex is used in
> Italian.
According to some more bogus websites it is.
"In Italian it is used in plurals of singulars ending with -io, thus
ending them with a longer i. In modern Italian this is accomplished with
a double or just a single i as in varî, varj, varii, vari ("various",
plural of vario)."
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