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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:41:13 +0200
From: Julius Schmidt <aiju@phicode.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] new-topic: typographical interface
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the solution is
to just stop worrying and love
the bitmap font because there
are more important things
in life.
such as not inserting spurious
new lines
in mailing list posts.

On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Albert Skye wrote:

> erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
>>> The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
>>
>> poor special effects?
>
> it's just resting!
> but maybe it should die
>
> yes
> no "modern GUI", &c.
> (and I'm grateful for that! :)
>
> but Plan 9 (and other software)
> can be much more useful by exposition
> within a *typographical interface*
> i.e.,
> an interface
> informed by typographical imperative[1]
> (to increase signal
> decrease noise)
> in
> arranging streams
> (of text/numbers/symbols/images
> outputs and inputs)
> using established patterns
> of typographical technology
> for
> improving the interface/tools
> between process and user
>
> to make it
> natural/immediate/effortless
>
> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style
>
>