Resolution indpendence

[Olivier Galibert]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 05:48:25PM +0200, olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 01:07:04PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 12:59:25AM +0200, olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net
> > wrote:
> 
> > > I very much doubt that people working with a lot of text will
> > > generally prefer smaller fonts. I'd rather suspect the opposite...
> > 
> > You'd be wrong.  From my experience in a research lab where people
> > handles lots of text, people tend to go for the smallest font size
> > their eyesight can cope with.
> 
> And what makes you believe that other people would prefer a larger font
> than "the smallest their eyesight can cope with"?...

Nothing.  But unless my english is not your english[1], that was you
who said people working with text prefer larger fonts.  Unless you
imply that such people have poor eyesight ;-)

  OG.

[1] I'm not a native speaker, and I suspect neither are you :-)