From: paul.allan.palmer at gmail.com (Paul Palmer)
Subject: [COFF] On having a slash
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 21:57:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM6ucknvQKFYem3v2UFKdi36DLv1c4oyW0uXumqS1yBQr4W1-Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2004131832580.1535@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Did anyone ever find a font with these characters? Preferably one I can use
with TeX.
Thanks
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:01 AM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org wrote:
> Way back then, when dinosaurs strode the earth and System/360 reigned
> supreme, we were taught to slash our zeros and sevens (can't quite find
> the glyphs for them right now) in order to distinguish them from Oscars
> and Ones for the benefit of the keypunch girls (yes, really; I had the
> hots for one of them at one time, but someone else took her) on those
> green sheets.
>
> In the time-mean I also saw a slash through "Z" (Zulu, Zed, Zee) in order
> to distinguish it from a "2" (FIGURES TWO); WTF? And you *never* slashed
> your ones, lest thou ended up with the contents of an 029 chad-box over
> thine head...
>
> These days, I merely slash my sevens by habit and it doesn't even raise an
> eyebrow; even Oz Pigeon Post's mail mangler seems to accept it[*].
>
> What're other bods' experiences?
>
> [*]
> Don't even mention Redfern, OK? Just don't... And as for getting off at
> Redfern, well, I did a few times when I had a contract job around there.
>
> -- Dave, bored at home
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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
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 [this message]
2020-04-13 15:14 rudi.j.blom
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