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Re:Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy progra... by sevg on Friday November 07, 2025 @06:31PM (#45852570)
> the way people actually have come to use it

I have never seen anyone use it as part of an up arrow spread across two lines in the way that you’re suggesting. So I don’t really understand your point.

Ok it’s not symmetrical, but I don’t buy your argument that it _should_ be (or that it’s a reasonable complaint to make about a font).

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Re:Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy progra... by normie3000 on Friday November 07, 2025 @09:39PM (#45853618)
> I have never seen anyone use it as part of an up arrow spread across two lines in the way that you’re suggesting.

You've never heard of "caret and stick"?

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Re:Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy progra... by Culonavirus on Saturday November 08, 2025 @04:01AM (#45855286)
Totally. Ultra niche edge case nonsense.
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Re:Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy progra... by pessimizer on Saturday November 08, 2025 @03:56PM (#45859895)
Rust compiler error output certainly uses a lot of vertical arrows. But it also highlights the fact that the caret is often used to highlight characters on the line above, and if it were lower it would be worse at doing that.

I do hate this asymmetry when I'm trying to do an ASCII flowchart of some sort.

But I'd also like to add that calling it an unreasonable complaint sounds a little hysterical. It's just a complaint. It's also a clear one, and of obvious use.

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