From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue May 02 13:25:49 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 02 May 2006 13:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Fb1R4-0003lN-M8 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 13:25:30 -0700 Received: from h-66-134-26-207.nycmny83.covad.net ([66.134.26.207] helo=pi.meson.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Fb1Qs-0003fb-3b for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 13:25:30 -0700 Received: (qmail 7336 invoked from network); 2 May 2006 20:25:15 -0000 Received: from nagas.meson.org (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (1000@192.168.1.101) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 2 May 2006 20:25:15 -0000 Message-ID: <4457C02A.9010002@kli.org> Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 16:25:14 -0400 From: "Mark E. Shoulson" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: The Programmer's Alphabet References: <20060502195531.GN17955@chain.digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20060502195531.GN17955@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 11364 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mark@kli.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Ugh. It's really... um, strange. He's going for distinctiveness, and yet many of the glyphs are rotations and reflections of each other? I know that's technically distinct, but people do frequently make those kind of mistakes, not just mis-seeing. The sample font doesn't have the same slanty tops for the numbers; they all just look like usual LED figures (and we all know how readable those are). Some of the letters are hard to explain. For easily disambiguated things, you might want to start with the various OCR fonts, since those were designed with just that in mind, though not with the small-size requirement. ~mark Robin Lee Powell wrote: >On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:50:49PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > > >>Those here who are interested in de-novo alphabets and in >>computers will be interested in The Programmer's Font, which >>should have been named The Programmer's Alphabet. >> >>http://www.arcavia.com/Software/ProgFont/ >> >> > >The demo would be more interesting if the letters were very, very >small (to prove his point). > >-Robin > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.