Hi John, At 2024-02-28T10:02:16+1100, John Gardner wrote: > > or because of that guy's rambling response enhanced by Boots of > > Striding and Springing?
(I was referring to the eyoung* guy...but...) > That, and the impossibility of attempting to correct a sentence like > *"Terminals support only four font names: R, I, B, and BI"*. Like, I > know what the user's attempting to say, but it's not so much "wrong" > as it is "incorrectable". Isn't that true? The device description files that groff ships for terminal devices all have a line like this: fonts 4 R I B BI And, while, yes, you could hack up your own DESC file that said different for a terminal device, there would be the more vexing question of extending grotty(1) to handle whatever it was that you wanted. > Terminals don't have fonts. I mean… they *do* (IBM selectric > typewriters, whaddup <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUEUth7qjc>), > but not in the sense that they're relevant to grotty(1), and… just… > ugh… A more fastidious response might have said "faces" or simply "styles", though the latter risks some confusion with the DESC file keyword of that name. > Stack Exchange is dead. There is no future, only underwhelming AI > gibberish and inevitable model collapse. I won't bet against you there. Even the _Financial Times_ is getting the memo. https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5 Regards, Branden
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