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Article #477Idiot fonts [Was: Making qlb with PDS 7]
From: Phred
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:33
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:33
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In article <f6ebvuoc2vfhau5vm6eufl93mnmh1iujv7@4ax.com>, ararghNOSPAM@NOT.AT.enteract.com wrote: >On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:43:24 GMT, Bounce_It_jerry@iss.u-net.com_.bin >(J French) wrote: > >>My BASIC 7.1 clearly states that /I is to do with ISAMs > >I think that he had a LC 'L', not an 'I' > ><snip> 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? Even worse, a quantitative genetics text by Mather & Jinks I once had to make sense of, 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! (That was 30 years ago, and I'm still whinging about it. :-) [ Note: followups set to comp.fonts ] Cheers, Phred. -- ppnerkDELETE@THISyahoo.com.INVALID
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,320669ee656af929,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: fbb79,320669ee656af929,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb79,public X-Google-Thread: 10ab99,52d99d8ceae36964 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ab99,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-10 02:30:35 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.arcor-online.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!czpp-p-144-134-73-218.prem.tmns.net.AU!not-for-mail From: ppnerk@yahoo.com (Phred) Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic,aus.computers.ibm-pc,comp.fonts Subject: Idiot fonts [Was: Making qlb with PDS 7] Followup-To: comp.fonts Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:33:55 GMT Organization: Just me Lines: 30 Message-ID: <at4fo9$1094ai$2@ID-151056.news.dfncis.de> References: <3DF59A12.850CCD1E@tpg.com.au> <3df5a9b1.2036257@news.u-net.com> <f6ebvuoc2vfhau5vm6eufl93mnmh1iujv7@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: czpp-p-144-134-73-218.prem.tmns.net.au (144.134.73.218) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1039516234 33853778 144.134.73.218 (16 [151056]) X-Orig-Path: 8x1131s X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.01