[COFF] On having a slash

[Derek Fawcus]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:09:21AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 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 (raised in England), in my early 50s:
  draw a 1 as simply a vertical stroke, no serifs
  draw a 7 without any bar, but did see that being used by some while in middle school
  draw an 4 'open', rather than 'closed'
  draw 0 variably depending upon context

A 0 usually without slash, occasionaly with a slash when writing code
or it would otherwise be ambiguous (licence codes, etc).

We tended to view the stroked 7 as a Continental practice, but some people adopted it.

As to your question about spaces, I do it as Paul described - a short of shallow bucket.

> I (English-born, Aussie-bred) use s short serif and underline on the "1".

Aha - so you were pulling our legs with your phrasing of the subject.

DF