Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
#736 closed defect (fixed)
typeface confuses vertical bar | with lowercase letter l
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | lowest | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | 5.0 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
On page 99 of v5 of The LinuxfromScratch Book (installation of perl 5.8) the typeface of the PDF version makes it hard to decide whether there are vertical bars, the uppercase letter I or the lowercase letter l... which makes a difference to perl :)
The line in question is:
echo 'static_ext="IO re Fcntl"' >> hints/linux.sh
The characters in question are the I in IO and the l in Fcntl (in fact, it wasn't until I cut-and-paste the line into this textbox that I realized the first character was a capital I... it looked like a vertical bar | in my PDF reader [version 5]).
BTW, I'm really enjoying this exercise. Keep up the good work!
- Mark
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 20 years ago
comment:2 by , 20 years ago
both gpdf and xpdf show a capital 'I' and a lowercase 'l' as identical. Also, the pdf text in the command sections has poor spacing. Not sure yet what is causing this.
comment:3 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
With our current method to create the PDF, this bug is now solved.
Hmm, I'm unable to view the PDF version right at this moment. Could somebody who understands PDF technology please confirm and make some comment here? Thanks.