Re: SSD TBW

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.misc,sci.electronics.design
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:33:38 -0700, Don Y wrote:

> Put a serif on a glyph and the serif looks disproportionately large.
> Dot an I and the dot is 1/3 the size of the i!

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_hinting>

> On 8/23/2026 9:59 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> Take apart a document from common present-day office suites and what
>> do you find at the core? XML!
>
> Really?  Have a look at the files created by these mainstream tools:
>     <https://mega.nz/folder/oiJlVAAQ#RD9jjzpEQz0Muskjn2L3jA>

Can’t see anything “mainstream” there, I’m afraid. Except the epub
one.

> Now, suppose I had a tool that told you that the 47th byte (of any
> file) was changed to a 0x22. What use is that information to you,
> beyond "this file doesn't agree with this OTHER file!"

Precisely the point why binary formats are so hard to deal with.
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