Random Thoughts 3: A Little Bit of This, and a Little Bit of That...

[Synobun]

Random Thought: I wish there were a were to have text processors implement a reverse italics character style.

Do right-to-left fonts do that?

 

[cardgame]

You mean these?

 

[Takhisis]

Do right-to-left fonts do that?

I think they can, but that would really just them being marked as italics.

You mean these?

Yes! Well, I mean, making existing fonts have an option . Say, in our mini-text processor in the WYSIWYG quick-reply we get B I U, right? Well, I was just wondering whether we couldn't have an extra inverse I to make letters slant to the right as in those fonts you linked to.
It'd look like

B I U \​

, so to speak.

 

[cardgame]

Well, there's probably a really simple reason it's not standardized anywhere, because it's terrible.

 

[Takhisis]

And yet Comic Sans and Papyrus come pre-installed with most modern operating systems.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

And yet Comic Sans and Papyrus come pre-installed with most modern operating systems.

I'm annoyed that we don't have Comic Sans here.

 

[Broken_Erika]

This forum needs Wingdings!

 

[Birdjaguar]

Comic Sans sucks. Good riddance.

 

[Ryika]

Comic Sans sucks. Good riddance.

Heretic.

@topic:
My friend and I had an interesting discussion with another friend of ours yesterday. Don't quite remember how we even got to the topic, but the setup was basically that, if he's sitting on the bus, and the seat next to him was the only one that's empty, and then a woman who is pregnant enters the bus, but doesn't want to sit next to him because of religious reasons, he would give up his seat so she can sit there without having to violate her religious beliefs. Quite a silly scenario that would never happen because of all sorts of reasons, but that's what we ended up with.

Needless to say, we made fun of him because of that answer during the rest of the evening. It is a bit of a funny thought experiment though, because it forces a person to either act on behalf of another person's religious beliefs, or to be a bit of a jerk.

 

[Gori the Grey]

In Word, you can use Word Art.

 

[The_J]

Yes! Well, I mean, making existing fonts have an option . Say, in our mini-text processor in the WYSIWYG quick-reply we get B I U, right? Well, I was just wondering whether we couldn't have an extra inverse I to make letters slant to the right as in those fonts you linked to.
It'd look like

B I U \​

, so to speak.

The thing is that making something bold or in italics is not really an "option".
For every font which you have, the bold, italic and bold italic versions are basically different fonts.
If you'd look it up on your machine, you'll find that you have one set of characters for the normal version, another set for italics, for bold, and bold italic.
If you wanted, you could make it so that on your machine the italic version of times new roman is the italic version of windings. Or the bold. Doesn't matter what you'd pick.

So, long story short: To have the reverse italics for a font, someone manually needs to make the reverse italics for every letter.
And since this is not a standard thing, there cannot really be an option for this, since the reverse italics just do not exist for our fonts.

 

[Takhisis]

I know how fonts work. But one can still dream.

 

[Hygro]

wait my sig is no longer in comic sans?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

It is

 

[Takhisis]

It still is, thankfully, but if you check the drop-down menu the option for Comic Sans has been removed, at least in Quick Reply mode.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Comic Sans sucks. Good riddance.

I joined another gaming forum back in April, and Comic Sans is the default for the theme I picked (with ProBoards you can have default fonts that go with specific themes). So for me, everything there is in Comic Sans.

wait my sig is no longer in comic sans?

It's in Comic Sans, and I've been meaning to ask how you managed that.

 

[Takhisis]

Like this:

[FONT=Comic Sans MS] "When you are uncool that's the road to cool. When you're cool already that's the road to not being cool anymore. [laughs] So don't be afraid of that"[/FONT]

But you have to do it by hand.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Like this:

[FONT=Comic Sans MS] "When you are uncool that's the road to cool. When you're cool already that's the road to not being cool anymore. [laughs] So don't be afraid of that"[/FONT]

But you have to do it by hand.

Thank you!

I guess Impact works the same way...

 

[Ryika]

Here's a thought:

Has there ever been a prominent #MeToo-Accusation that was not followed by dozens of further claims, many of them anonymous? I can't think of any, but to be fair, I did not follow the thing that closely - so maybe I just missed them.

But under the assumption that this is correct, what conclusion would we draw from it? It would either mean, that all prominent people who were ever accused have been guilty of not only one crime, but dozens, or it means that even innocent people who are the victim of slander will become the victim of further acts of slander after the initial accusation is out there. #woke

 

[Lexicus]

Comic Sans is the worst font and legally can only be used in ironic meme formats