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  • pmk@lemmy.sdf.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAluminium
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    2 days ago

    Calligraphy just kind of means “pretty writing”, it’s not bound to a specific style. Edward Johnston used the term “penmanship” more often. Cursive means that the letters are formed in a “running” way, as opposed to the many times you have to lift the nib in some other styles. Even the romans had a cursive form of the letters we now refer to as “capitals” or “upper case”.









  • It did make sense at one point. They implemented a music player with a daemon part and a client part, so from that you had the mpd server and mpc client. Someone wrote an ncurses frontend for the client, naturally called ncmpc. Iirc that person abandoned it and someone else took over with a new iteration. ncmpcpp. But it really is a bad name.