[COFF] On having a slash
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Tue Apr 14 08:09:21 AEST 2020
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, Paul Guertin wrote:
> I would love to see a study correlating the serif length on 1 with both
> the age of the writer and the place he or she learned to write. Most
> Europeans write ones with serifs, but while some of them write normal
> serifs, others go full CVS receipt and end up with serifs longer than
> the character they're seriffing.
I (English-born, Aussie-bred) use s short serif and underline on the "1".
Hmmm... My MacBook puts a dot in the middle of the "0" (zero) and
serifs/underlines the "1" too.
I make spaces visible with a sort of a musical "flat" symbol but with a
short bar through it, write a tab as a short right arrow, and for me it's
always ^C etc (which is how they're echoed).
Part of my background is formal message-passing in emergency
communications, whereby the written message *must* be correct as that will
what will be sent (even spelling and grammatical errors, which used to
irritate me although I am allowed to query the author).
Ahhh... The Tower of Babel when it comes to something that must by
definition be precise :-)
-- Dave (VK2KFU)
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