From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:09:21 +1000 (EST) Subject: [COFF] On having a slash In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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)