From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: paul.allan.palmer at gmail.com (Paul Palmer) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 21:57:46 -0500 Subject: [COFF] On having a slash In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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 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 > _______________________________________________ > COFF mailing list > COFF at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: