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> Ligatures are fading from use in contemporary printing, probably due to the rise of computers. If somebody doesn’t use the fi ligature when using Serif fonts, he is an idiot, because of the crappy...
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What does a multi-letter keytip mean? Do I hold down Alt while pressing the first and then the second letter? Do I only hold down Alt for the first letter? Something else?
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re: Break it up, you two!: The zero width non-joiner
So that's why lowercase RN (rn) is often shown as m.
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@alegr1: No that is because of "keming" (bad kerning).
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@alegr1 - At one point the "M" key on my laptop broke; I found myself needing to type rn instead to compensate, at least until I used a registry hack to remap my menu key to m. Eventually I just...
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re: Microsoft Money crashes during import of account transactions or when...
There's now a discussion on this over at Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/itemNotable is the personal thanks to Raymond Chen at news.ycombinator.com/item .
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@thespiral if Raymond Chen were to post a video of him debugging, it wouldn't be eight hours long; it would be thirty seconds, and everyone would just spend eight hours re-watching it to try to...
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The only thing missing from Unicode is a virtual machine that can execute programs inside strings. We should reserve a bitplane for the opcodes before it's too late!
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re: Why are taskbar live previews lost when you use Fast User Switching?
Windows may forget many important thingch to that login screen.For example, when a user changes password, the keyboard shortcuts are lost. The ones that trigger specific input languages (I use...
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Nice, Raymond =) I've actually done assembly language patches like this to our code in an emergency to fix a critical bug. It's advisable to *not* fix things this way from a maintainability...
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@Gabe: "What does a multi-letter keytip mean? Do I hold down Alt while pressing the first and then the second letter? Do I only hold down Alt for the first letter? Something else?"In this context,...
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My brain just melted and is now in a puddle on the desk in front of me.
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re: Break it up, you two!: The zero width non-joiner
I conclude the tester was using something like strcmp instead of CompareString?
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Two letter accelerator thingies=usability disaster. One of the numerous FAILS of the horrible Ribbon.
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xpclient, you do realize that these are for people who are used to the key sequences from the old menus, right, and that this is not something new in the ribbon?
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@Joshua: the pointer itself has zeroes in its 4 least significant bits, because it points to a 16 byte aligned address. Now you can stuff things (like count/length/size) into the pointer itself, and...
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re: Why are taskbar live previews lost when you use Fast User Switching?
@JoeWoodbury: Basically it would continue to render itself normally when minimized. The fact that it is minimized wouldn't affect things any more. It would be drawing to some buffer on the video card...
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@xpclient: There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. There are more than 26 commands on the ribbon. How, then, do you propose to create a shortcut for each using only a single accelerator.
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Does the ZWNJ also serve as a text-to-speech hint that the word shouldn't be prononced "FA" but rather "F" "A" ?
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I'd really like to see the correct implementation of this.
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