Re: TECH: Font question
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 2, 2008, 19:29 |
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On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote:
> On May 2, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
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> > FWIW MS Word has a 'feature' so that if you first change the whole doc
> > to one font (scil. Doulos SIL) and then to another (scil. Times NR)
> > then all characters which are missing in the second font will remain
> > as the first.
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> I assume "scil." means "for example", but what does it stand for?
Presumably "scilicet" (
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=scilicet ) which is more
"that is" or "namely" than "for example". (And which I usually see
abbreviated as "sc.")
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>