Comments on: Notes: finding books and reading papers. http://sophistry.org/2006/09/25/notes-finding-books-and-reading-papers/ Jeff Durland's views on certain matters, not excluding editorial communications, Web usability, writing, food, and wine. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:50:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 by: Jeff Durland http://sophistry.org/2006/09/25/notes-finding-books-and-reading-papers/#comment-808 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:26:26 +0000 http://sophistry.org/2006/09/25/notes-finding-books-and-reading-papers/#comment-808 <p>Phil, thanks for stopping by. I was indeed thinking of that ridiculous ClearType decision, which is apparently the reason type looks so terrible whenever I sit down at a Windows machine. No disrepect to Mr. Carter is intended, of course.</p> Phil, thanks for stopping by. I was indeed thinking of that ridiculous ClearType decision, which is apparently the reason type looks so terrible whenever I sit down at a Windows machine. No disrepect to Mr. Carter is intended, of course.

]]> by: Phil Oye http://sophistry.org/2006/09/25/notes-finding-books-and-reading-papers/#comment-807 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:36:18 +0000 http://sophistry.org/2006/09/25/notes-finding-books-and-reading-papers/#comment-807 <p>Jeff,</p> <p>I love to bash Microsoft as much as any Apple-zealot, but typography is something they are actually pretty good at. After all, Microsoft commissioned Matthew Carter to design Verdana and Georgia, two screen superb fonts for onscreen reading.</p> <p>As far as rendering type, ClearType, their onscreen anti-aliasing algorithm, is excellent. Granted, the fact that it was turned OFF by default on XP, does warrant some bashing...</p> Jeff,

I love to bash Microsoft as much as any Apple-zealot, but typography is something they are actually pretty good at. After all, Microsoft commissioned Matthew Carter to design Verdana and Georgia, two screen superb fonts for onscreen reading.

As far as rendering type, ClearType, their onscreen anti-aliasing algorithm, is excellent. Granted, the fact that it was turned OFF by default on XP, does warrant some bashing…

]]> by: Extraface McGee http://sophistry.org/2006/09/25/notes-finding-books-and-reading-papers/#comment-158 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:03:25 +0000 http://sophistry.org/2006/09/25/notes-finding-books-and-reading-papers/#comment-158 <p>[this is good] Thanks for the pointers to some good content.</p> [this is good] Thanks for the pointers to some good content.

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