Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN
Date	2014-02-04 18:18 -0500
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On 2/4/2014 10:21 AM, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote:

>> I was able to discover that link by opening the page, highlighting the
>> section header with my mouse, then clicking the pilcrow.  That gives
>> me the anchor link to that section header.
>
> Useless and really ugly.

Jim, when you say 'useless', please qualify as 'useless to me'. 
Otherwise, people may think that you mean 'useless to eveyone', and it 
is disrespectful to mislead people that way. I hope you are aware that 
your personal ideas of usefulness to yourself are quite different from 
other peoples' ideas of usefulness to themselves.

I now understand that you consider the FSR useless *to you* because you 
do not care about the bugginess of narrow builds or about the spacious 
of wide builds. You do care about uniformity of character size across 
all strings, and FSR lacks that. You are entitled to make that judgment 
for yourself. You are not entitled to sabotage others by projecting you 
personal judgments onto others. The FSR and pilcrow are definitely 
useful to other people as they judge personal usefulness for themselves.

PS. I agree that the pilcrow appearing and disappearing is not pretty 
when I am not looking to use it. I happen to think that is it tolerable 
because it is sometimes useful.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

Thread

generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug) wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-02-03 05:59 -0800
  Re: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug) Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-02-03 09:50 -0700
  Re: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug) Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2014-02-03 17:42 +0000
    Re: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug) wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-02-03 10:37 -0800
      Re: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-04 05:46 +1100
      Re: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug) Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2014-02-03 18:55 +0000
        Re: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug) wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-02-03 11:31 -0800
        [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN (was: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug)) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-02-04 09:56 +1100
          Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN (was: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug)) wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-02-03 22:51 -0800
            Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN (was: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug)) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-04 17:58 +1100
            Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN (was: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug)) Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2014-02-04 09:39 -0500
              Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN (was: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug)) wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-02-04 07:21 -0800
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-02-04 08:31 -0700
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-04 10:24 -0800
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-05 03:18 +1100
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-02-04 13:20 -0500
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-02-04 19:40 +0100
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN (was: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug)) andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2014-02-04 19:19 +0000
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-02-04 18:00 -0500
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-02-04 18:18 -0500
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-02-05 06:41 -0800
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-02-05 10:23 -0500
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-02-05 10:58 -0800
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-05 15:45 +0000
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-02-04 18:24 -0500
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-02-04 18:28 -0500
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-05 10:35 +1100
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN (was: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug)) Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-02-06 04:23 -0800
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN (was: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug)) wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-02-06 05:27 -0800
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN (was: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug)) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-07 04:23 +1100
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2014-02-06 19:29 +0000
                Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-02-06 19:05 -0800
  Re: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug) andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2014-02-03 17:45 +0000

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