July 29, 2015
2:51 p.m.
Ian Abbott wrote:
the № character does look horribly condensed when rendered in a fixed width font
True. I mildly prefer "№" but it's not worth the aggravation to others so I changed it back to "No." in the experimental version (see attached patch). This isn't simply an undo: if we combine the last two patches (see the attached combined patch) some instances of "Number", "[Number]", "Nº", "no.", etc. have been changed to "No.", so the usage is more consistent now. I was particularly bugged by the "Nº", as the masculine ordinal indicator is a solecism here.