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Originally Posted by DGReader
(Although I still don't see the difference between 98.6º and 98.6°. Well, okay, maybe the latter "correct" one looks smaller. Anyway…)
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For whatever it's worth, the degree symbol as shown in your example above is a circle, whereas the O ordinal is more oval in shape. Hard to tell in small point sizes, but in larger sizes:
98.6º and 98.6°
the difference becomes more obvious. The degree symbol should always be a circle, not an oval.
These typographical niceties may sound trivial and totally anal to many (as in, "get a life, dude, and just read the damn book"), but it's all the little trivial things like these that add up to the difference between a professional-looking document and one that is just flogged up on Word. Professionally typeset documents just beg to be read. You've got to really
want to read something that looks like unedited OCRd text.