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From: dfawcus+lists-coff at employees.org (Derek Fawcus)
Subject: [COFF] On having a slash
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:34:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200414133403.GB46873@clarinet.employees.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2004140752350.1535@aneurin.horsfall.org>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-14 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-13  9:01 dave
2020-04-13 11:30 ` david
2020-04-13 12:38   ` clemc
2020-04-13 14:10     ` mike.ab3ap
2020-04-13 14:21       ` thomas.paulsen
2020-04-13 14:23         ` imp
2020-04-13 12:53   ` paul
2020-04-13 14:12     ` imp
2020-04-13 15:29   ` krewat
2020-04-13 15:40     ` pdagog
2020-04-13 13:21 ` thomas.paulsen
2020-04-13 13:23 ` cym224
2020-04-13 13:36   ` 
2020-04-13 17:35   ` paul
2020-04-13 22:09     ` dave
2020-04-14 13:34       ` dfawcus+lists-coff [this message]
2020-04-14 14:23         ` gdmr
2020-04-13 22:12     ` krewat
2020-04-13 23:21       ` dave
2020-04-14  0:12 ` grog
2020-04-14  2:57 ` paul.allan.palmer
2020-04-13 15:14 rudi.j.blom

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