[texshop] TeXShop 4.13

[Justin C. Walker]

Well, ...

> On Oct 13, 2018, at 11:15 , Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at icloud.com> wrote:
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>> On 13 Oct 2018, at 17:02, Gary L. Gray <glgray at me.com> wrote:
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>> Speaking of fonts, if you use Menlo, then you should check out Meslo, which is a customized version Menlo that increases the line spacing. It also has a version with a dotted zero instead of zero with a diagonal line. It is my go-to font for everything code related and for email.
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>> https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font
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> I forgot: if you're interested in such subtle font aspects, then you might check also Lucida Console DK, which is part of TUG's Lucida OpenType package <http://tug.org/store/lucida/opentype.html>.
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> It is a customized version of Lucida Grande Mono DK specially designed for console apps. To that effect, it has shorter capitals.
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> The zero is not dotted nor slashed. "Slashed Zero" is available as a typographic extra, but when I select it in Apple's font picker it doesn't appear in TeXShop.
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> However, the O and Q letters have the super-elliptic design championed by Don Knuth (hence the DK in the font name)
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> http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb34-2/tb107bigelow-zero.pdf
> http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb35-3/tb111knut-zero.pdf
> http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb36-3/tb114bigelow.pdf
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> so they are easily distinguished from the 0 digit. See also
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> http://tug.org/store/lucida/opentype-dk.html
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> Attached are screnshots of the same text in Menlo
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> <Screenshot 2018-10-13 at 19.47.01.png>
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> and Lucida Console DK
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> <Screenshot 2018-10-13 at 19.46.26.png>
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> You really need a trained eye to see the differences.

This has certainly been an instructive thread.

As for the Reply-to issue: I’m happy with whatever the list provides.  I hadn’t noticed in the past that the TeX lists were configured this way, so clearly, no impact on me.  Thanks for clarifying this aspect of my scribblings.

Justin

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