Hi Werner, > Many years ago, in the age of bitmap fonts, they *were* symmetric. > However, the symbols are *intentionally* asymmetric today to avoid > confusion with real quote characters. > > That I still use `foo' indicates that I became old :-)
I still use it too, and a few months back I returned to bitmap fonts because I was fed up with trying to find an anti-aliased font that rendered well on a good quality Full HD monitor that's not sub-retina. Anti-aliasing is fine for a web page or similar when many different sizes are to be rendered for something that's going to be eyeballed for a minute or two, but I live in terminal windows, as do many of you, and all the text in a window is a single size, pre-chosen by me. The bitmaps are far better. Sharp edges. Crisp. Sure, I can see the steps on `/' if I peer at it, but that's normal to me. Changing the text size, e.g. Ctrl-+, still sticks with another hand-optimised bitmap font for that new size. And I once again have symmetric «`'». :-) -- Cheers, Ralph.
