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In article <at5r24$112059$1@ID-69072.news.dfncis.de>, "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Phred <ppnerk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:at4fo9$1094ai$2@ID-151056.news.dfncis.de...
>> ararghNOSPAM@NOT.AT.enteract.com wrote
>>> Bounce_It_jerry@iss.u-net.com_.bin (J French) wrote
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>>>> My BASIC 7.1 clearly states that /I  is to do with ISAMs
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>>> I think that he had a LC 'L', not an 'I'
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>> Which leads to the question: Who was the
>> complete idiot who designed fonts where lc
>> 'L' is the same as uc 'I', and why did he do it?
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>Usual problem with 'artistic' wankers, presumably.
>Fonts have always had a 'creative' element.
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>> Even worse, a quantitative genetics text by
>> Mather & Jinks I once had to make sense of,
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>Is that coz you're from tasmania ?

Toads have got to Tassie?  ;-)

>> used a font where the i's and the 1's were
>> indistinguishable -- brilliant piece of publishing stupidity!
>> Especially for a text that was loaded with algebraic expressions!
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>> (That was 30 years ago, and I'm still whinging about it. :-)
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>Shame on you. The poor bugger responsible likely curled up and died.
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>> [ Note: followups set to comp.fonts ]
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>Wrong again.

Sigh...  (But now this should go to sci.environment. 8-)


Cheers, Phred.

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