[COFF] On having a slash

[dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)]

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 (English-born, Aussie-bred) use s short serif and underline on the "1". 
Hmmm...  My MacBook puts a dot in the middle of the "0" (zero) and 
serifs/underlines the "1" too.

I make spaces visible with a sort of a musical "flat" symbol but with a 
short bar through it, write a tab as a short right arrow, and for me it's 
always ^C etc (which is how they're echoed).

Part of my background is formal message-passing in emergency 
communications, whereby the written message *must* be correct as that will 
what will be sent (even spelling and grammatical errors, which used to 
irritate me although I am allowed to query the author).

Ahhh...  The Tower of Babel when it comes to something that must by 
definition be precise :-)

-- Dave (VK2KFU)