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| Author: | jts [ Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | tilde? |
I like to use the tilde to show approximation, guesstimation, etc. A lot of other people do too. But the tilde comes out like this in the forum: ~ This is what tildes usually look like:  Is there anyway that we could get the tilde to look like a tilde? |
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| Author: | amnal [ Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: tilde? |
They look the same to me. But I don't know if that would be a browser difference in default font or something like my os not having the font l19 would otherwise use. |
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| Author: | judicata [ Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: tilde? |
They both look the same to me (except one is enormous). I don't know how the fonts work, but maybe it is something on your end? |
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| Author: | fwiffo [ Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: tilde? |
Can you post a screenshot? |
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| Author: | kirkmc [ Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: tilde? |
They're the same, just different fonts. You simply can't say that any character or letter looks "wrong" in any font; it's just that they're part of that font. |
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| Author: | jts [ Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: tilde? |
Ah, ok. I feel sheepish.  I assumed everyone had this problem. It looks like an en-dash on my browser. When I expanded the font to take a better screen shot, I realized that it is a tilde, it's just not visible at the default font size. I attached two screenshots, but they're making my eyes bleed. Is there any way to hide the attachments? [mod edit=Chew]Hid them by placing them inline then surrounding them with hide tags.[/mod edit] |
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| Author: | judicata [ Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: tilde? |
Ah, that makes sense. Indeed, if the tilde really looked like an en-dash, I would be comfortable saying it looked wrong and is a bad font. 
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| Author: | fwiffo [ Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: tilde? |
Weird... I am also running Ubuntu (well, Kubuntu) and tilde looks fine for me. Do you have msttcorefonts installed? |
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| Author: | jts [ Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: tilde? |
fwiffo wrote: Weird... I am also running Ubuntu (well, Kubuntu) and tilde looks fine for me. Do you have msttcorefonts installed? It's already the newest version. I tried changing Chrome's default sans-serif font, but that doesn't do anything; and anyway, I can see tildes fine on other pages which are using sans-serif fonts, just not L19. Curiouser and curiouser. But if I'm the only one who's having this problem, it's not really the end of the world. |
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| Author: | fwiffo [ Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: tilde? |
The only thing I can think is that your anti-aliasing or hinting settings are screwing up the font rendering. I suggest playing around with those. |
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