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Huh, I don't find Bitstream Vera Sans Mono or any other monospace font
with slashed zero in CentOS 6.4 or Ubuntu 12.
I find dotted zeros in DejaVu Sans Mono and Liberation Mono, available
in both distributions, and Ubuntu Mono.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com> wrote:
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> There's no single code font with a slashed zero that is reliably available cross platform.
>
> Use Consolas (windows), Monaco (Mac), and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (linux). You can specify all of them in a single font-face statement, although the names may be different from this -- I've often had to poke around to find the right names that would work.
>
> Laura
>
> On Aug 7, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
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>> I'm looking for a dotted or slashed zero I can use in the code
>> listings in my docs that will display properly on *all* in-house and
>> customers' systems (which means Mac, Linux, and Windows) in all of the
>> deliverables generated by my single-source tool chains.
>>
>> It's easy to make that happen on *some* systems.
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