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Article #478Re: Idiot fonts [Was: Making qlb with PDS 7]
From: Rod Speed
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:49
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:49
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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 >>> My BASIC 7.1 clearly states that /I is to do with ISAMs >> I think that he had a LC 'L', not an 'I' > 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? Usual problem with 'artistic' wankers, presumably. Fonts have always had a 'creative' element. > Even worse, a quantitative genetics text by > Mather & Jinks I once had to make sense of, Is that coz you're from tasmania ? > 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. :-) Shame on you. The poor bugger responsible likely curled up and died. > [ Note: followups set to comp.fonts ] Wrong again.
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