🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 10 Apr 1999 15:55:28 +0100, "Mark Dawes"
<mark@mrdawes.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>>>> I have two recommendations for you if you wish to get nice responses
>>>> from Usenet groups: Capitalize your I's for ease of understanding and
>>>> don't begin a message asking for help, or anything else for that
>>>> matter, with "Hey" - it's not polite.
>
>If your font is Arial I (capital i) and l (lower case L) are
>indistinguishable.  Using "i" does avoid that problem (but changing default
>font would be better).

Yes, I think I would change fonts!

>Any thoughts on using L for litres where 50l (for "50 litres") can be
>misinterpreted?

Writing 50l, which looks nearly identical to 501, could indeed be
confusing. I think I'd just spell the word out.

I see from the Concise Oxford Dictionary that L already has a number
of meanings, so it might not be the best choice:

L, meaning one
1 the twelfth letter of the alphabet.
2 (as a Roman numeral) 50.
3 a thing shaped like an L, esp. a joint connecting two pipes at right
angles.
L, meaning two
1 Lake.
2 Brit. learner driver (cf. L-plate).
3 Liberal.
4 Biol. Linnaeus.
5 lire.
6 left.
L, meaning three
1 laevorotatory.
2 Avogadro's constant.

I wonder what Avogadro's constant is - same as Avogadro's number?

Charles Riggs