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Subject:Re: default font for bullets in Windows 7? From:John Allred <john2 -at- allrednet -dot- com> To:Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> Date:Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:56:48 -0600
It's always worked to Microsoft's interests to ignore all competitors. Despite long-term membership in the W3C, they dragged their feet for years on adopting common standards. Having your browser as the preferred browser under your operating system allows a strong tendency toward arrogance. True competition might have produced more urgency in solving their customers'--our--problems.
On Nov 19, 2012, at 10:40 PM, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
> On 11/19/2012 4:41 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
>> Hmm. I don't find a hollow round bullet in Courier New. Are you using
>> a degree symbol?
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> It is a lowercase letter o.
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>> Wingdings isn't Web-safe. Firefox doesn't support it.
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> Word's choice of bullets is hokey. The solid bullet is a solid bullet ASCII bullet, the next level bullet is the letter o, and the third level bullet is a special character. Why do they do things in such a way that portability in other programs and platforms becomes an issue?
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