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Subject:Re: default font for bullets in Windows 7? From:Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:32:04 -0500
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
>Why do they do things in such a way that portability
> in other programs and platforms becomes an issue?
Because it's probably the way they coded it back in the last century
(before we cared about portability), and they're not going to change
it now.
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