X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,bf1a4f526763ab4a X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson Subject: Re: Anybody have any more lines? Date: 1997/07/29 Message-ID: <33DD7986.794BDF32@nospam.sm.luth.se>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 260035613 Organization: Junk e-mail gladly reported (I have got credit for chucking several spammers out of their accounts) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art miK wrote: > > Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote: > > >Michael Naylor writes: > > >>Interesting, I notice that in your font the period must sit higher than > >>the underscore. In mine (Monaco 9) it sits at exactly the same level. > >>Others? [ 8< ] > > Strange... I thought ~ was meant to be put above a letter (like in > spanish). Does ~ serve other/better purposes in the computer > environment? Or does ~ even belong to a wholly different typo* > tradition? The spanish letter that looks like an n with a tilde (~) over it is not an n but a letter of its own (just like the Swedish letters ���, that look like a, a, and o with rings and dots over them are not the letters a, a, and o but completely different letters). The tilde character is a character of its own and cannot be "put above" another character. One example of how it is used is that it means "my home directory" in the unix world. For example, writing cd ~/pictures will take me to the directory named "pictures" in my home directory, no matter where I stand when I write that command. Here is an example of what it looks like compared to other text on my screen: http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/tilde.gif -- :) Veronica Karlsson ( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )