Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find setting

At 12:41 18/08/2013 +0200, Andrew Brown wrote:
> Thanks Tim, exactly what I was trying to express as briefly as possible.

Even though most of what he said was wrong?

> Brian, the spoken word is more important and critical than the 
> written word, ...

So you are not talking about punctuation like the rest of us, then - 
which occurs only in written text (unless you are Victor Borge, that 
is)?  (And I fear devotees of the Torah, the Bible, the Qur'an, and a 
hundred other similar texts would dispute your suggestion anyway!)

[Snipped: rest of paragraph talking about pauses in speaking, nothing 
about punctuation.]

> And yes I can breath[e] and read at the same time, that's not the real point.

For those of us who read without moving our lips, it is.

> And the true purpose of punctuation, is for reading both vocally and 
> in the mind, in that order, the one cannot be divorced from the other.

The purpose of punctuation is for reading?  Well, yes: if you don't 
read the message you don't need the punctuation!  (Otherwise, this 
says nothing.)

> And as to plain text it still has a font, ...

Sorry, but that's plain nonsense.  In order to display plain text, 
you need to use a font.  But you can choose any font, and that font 
is your choice (or your software's), not part of the plain 
text.  What do you think "plain" means here?

> Today even in a plain text document one can choose any font ...

Exactly: which proves the point that the plain text itself does *not* 
have a font.

> ... and correctly covered by Tim, ...

As I say (and explained separately), he was mainly incorrect, in fact.

> As to the font right now I am typing in, is in Mozilla Thunderbird, 
> and the font is Colibri, a sans serif one, ...

That's what you are seeing, but this mailing list (for example) 
distributes only a plain text version of your message, which has lost 
this property.

See also Felmon Davis's excellent examples.

Brian Barker


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