Re: [9fans] A simple question

[Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 08:09:12AM -0700, Jack Johnson wrote:
>
> So you know I had to look it up:
>
> J, K, W, X and Y (for you inglese)
>
Yep.  And never thought it weird :-)

> > Here are a couple of heresies I indulge in:
> >
> > 	- Capital letters should be part of a different font.
>
> Can you explain this a little further?  Do you mean that a font should
> be entirely one case or the other?
>
Not really, now that you make me think about it.  SOme fonts have
more characters than others.  The uppercase font would have only
26 letters in it (for the English alphabet) while the lower case
font would have 26 fewer.  May seem a little odd, but is it?

Of course, all the accents and other qualifiers would have
corresponding entries in each font, once you go that route.
Composition as in APL may be another approach, but it strikes me
as too hard to manage (doesn't really scale?).

I confess it is just a foible of mine, but I'm curious to see how
it strikes others.

++L