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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Technicas" 2010.03.18 (06) [EN]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"Normal" is illegible; I could read 13.5 pt Arial, but what I prefer is
plain text.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Michael Everson * </span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://www.evertype.com/" target="_blank">http://www.evertype.com/</a><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Pauline A Christensen</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:Polly.Christensen@colorado.edu">Polly.Christensen@colorado.edu</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Technicas" 2010.03.18 (06) [EN]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">AKK! Smaller font MUCh better. No to 13.5 Arial. Especially bad
when you want to print out something; it takes twice as much paper..<br>
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(Yes, I am a typographer.)<br>
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Thank you.<br>
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Polly Christensen </span></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br>----------<br><br><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Technica</font><br><br>Thanks, Michael and Polly!<br><br>Michael, I wonder if it has something to do with your computer monitor setting, because 9pt or 10pt Arial or Helvetica should really not be illegible. Have you tried zooming in if your program permits this?<br>
<br>As for plain text, the upshot of earlier discussions on this was that most people prefer to have formatting capabilities, such as bolding, italicizing and indenting, also the use of colors. Also, many people run into problems with special characters and right-to-left scripts in plain text. Lastly, quoted text marking tends to disappear in plain text, most people are too lazy to mark quoted text manually, and it would be way too much work for me to go through everyone's texts, figure out what is quoted and then mark it for them.*<br>
<br>*By the way, folks, let me remind you again that, if you just hit the reply button, an entire issue will be quoted, usually dangling at the end of your message. Whenever this happens I chop it off mercilessly, and I don't care if your response makes no sense without this reference. You are requested to quote only the portions that are relevant to your responses. If everyone's "full danglers" appeared we'd end up with LL-L issues miles and miles in length.<br>
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