>>>>>I just gave up, and increased the fontsize for UT messages from 13 to 14. It's the dang Arial. I read this as "operatic terror".
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>>>>About time you got glasses then.
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>>>I am wearing glasses. It's the AriaI. l've Iost count of how many things Iooked confusing in that font, whiIe they were quite OK in others.
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>>My i/f is not in Arial; it's in (I think) Courier New (proper nouns, see? part of a set of fonts). I take it your using "I" instead of "l" is by way of a comment on the similarity of the two letters in Arial.
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>Similarity? Maybe you should wear glasses. They are identical in Arial.

One of the quirks of English is that similar can also mean identical, esp. in a scientific sense. e.g. "Prove these two triangles are similar" doesn't mean "they've both got 3 sides, for instance". That one has always bugged me.

I DO wear glasses, my scrip is current and I agree with you that they are identical. But YOUR problem was with "rr" and "n". BTW, I'd've thought that Courier would've been the font of choice as we're often putting in code snippets.

>>However, that doesn't excuse your mistaking "n" for "rr" - they're both en-spaced, even in a proportional font.
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>I also see it in ugly Courier while writing (ugly but readable). It's when reading that I sometimes have a problem, and I'm running only 1280 x 1024 on a 19" monitor. And switching display size from 13px to 14px did it - but I'm starting a new thread here, in the proper category.
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>>'bout time you got a new prescription then? :-)
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>No... I got these this summer, and that's after a proper test by an ophtalmologist.

BTW, is there a difference between an ophtalmologist and an optician in US Eng? For my eye test I go to an optician or optometrist. I'd read ophtalmologist as an eye doctor. Why see one just for an eye test? Maybe you don't have opticians in the US?