On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:53:55 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Sorry for the delay in responding, been on holiday.
> > Defined usage:
> > () parentheses
> > [] brackets
> > {} braces
>
> "Defined"? Defined where?
The OED.
> In English*, a parenthesis is a separate expression** marked off fr
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:07 on Friday 20 August 2010, Mike Edenfield
did opine thusly:
> On 8/20/2010 11:40 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > As to the thingies, I enjoyed discovering that to many people a
> > parenthesis is not a glyph or punctuation mark, but instead the contents
> > of t
On 8/20/2010 11:40 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> As to the thingies, I enjoyed discovering that to many people a
> parenthesis is not a glyph or punctuation mark, but instead the contents
> of the language set aside in one way or another. I had always regarded
> parentheses as the round glyphs (),
On 08/20/2010 07:58 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 20 August 2010 14:20:35 Bill Longman wrote:
>> On 08/19/2010 04:38 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
So I looked up "auto-hinter" in the flagedit(1) program. It says:
auto-hinte
On Friday 20 August 2010 14:20:35 Bill Longman wrote:
> On 08/19/2010 04:38 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> >> So I looked up "auto-hinter" in the flagedit(1) program. It says:
> >> auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter ins
On Friday 20 August 2010 09:03:46 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Defined usage:
> () parentheses
> [] brackets
> {} braces
"Defined"? Defined where?
In English*, a parenthesis is a separate expression** marked off from the
rest of the sentence with brackets. Round ones, that is. A parenthesis
is
On 08/19/2010 04:38 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>> So I looked up "auto-hinter" in the flagedit(1) program. It says:
>> auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead
>> of the (recommended) TrueType bytecode interpreter
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:01:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> "Arrogant jerk on second floor with a beard and no head hair" is
> definitely more intuitive to my new staff, but for anyone here longer
> than a week it is far simpler to just use the name of the thing instead
> of some description, and r
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:38 on Friday 20 August 2010, Peter Humphrey
did opine thusly:
> On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > So I looked up "auto-hinter" in the flagedit(1) program. It says:
> > auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead
>
Apparently, though unproven, at 10:03 on Friday 20 August 2010, Neil Bothwick
did opine thusly:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:38:10 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > No, it isn't. You may be being confused by the unnecessary inclusion of
> > brackets (parentheses if you're American);
>
> If you're Bri
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:20:09 -0500, Dale wrote:
So, all that said, what the heck are we supposed to change here?
Nothing, unless you're using the bindist USE flag, in which case you
should replace it by auto-hinter. All that's happened is that control of
that fea
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:38:10 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> No, it isn't. You may be being confused by the unnecessary inclusion of
> brackets (parentheses if you're American);
If you're British too:
Defined usage:
() parentheses
[] brackets
{} braces
General usage:
() brackets
[] sq
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:20:09 -0500, Dale wrote:
> So, all that said, what the heck are we supposed to change here?
Nothing, unless you're using the bindist USE flag, in which case you
should replace it by auto-hinter. All that's happened is that control of
that feature has passed from one USE fla
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
So I looked up "auto-hinter" in the flagedit(1) program. It says:
auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead
of the (recommended) TrueType bytecode interpreter (media-
libs/freetype)
The pl
On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> So I looked up "auto-hinter" in the flagedit(1) program. It says:
> auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead
> of the (recommended) TrueType bytecode interpreter (media-
> libs/freetype)
>
> The placement of the "(
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:21:20 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> So I looked up "auto-hinter" in the flagedit(1) program. It says:
> > auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead of
> > the
> (recommended) TrueType bytecode interpreter (media-libs/freetype)
>
> The placement of
I just got this elog from updating my gentoo system. It's from
freetype-2.4.2:
begin --
LOG (postinst)
The TrueType bytecode interpreter is no longer patented and thus no
longer controlled by the bindist USE flag. Enable the auto-hinter
US
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