From lojbab@xxxxxx.xxxx Tue Sep 21 02:46:56 1999 X-Digest-Num: 239 Message-ID: <44114.239.1321.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 05:46:56 -0400 From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" From: "Robert J. Chassell" >David Brookshire Conner wrote: > > ... studies on font readability (as I recall), indicate that what > you find easiest to read is what you learn to read on. ... > >On the contrary, studies I read some years ago suggested that while >practice is important, given equivalent degrees of practice, the >information content of the interface makes the difference. > >If it is easier for reader to detect and recognize a difference among >letters or words, it is easier to read. Hence, given equal experience >among readers, fonts with serifs were easier, since they provides more >information per character and per word. In particular, there has been a historical problem with Loglan/Lojban text that is sans serif, because there is typically too little difference between sans lower case ell and sans upper case eye (l and I). TLI Loglan capitalizes the first word of every sentence, and the Loglan 1 book has many examples where there could be confusion between the words "la" and "Ia", as well as "le" and "Ie", found at the start of sentences. lojbab ---- lojbab ***NOTE NEW ADDRESS*** lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: see Lojban WWW Server: href=" http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/ " Order _The Complete Lojban Language_ - see our Web pages or ask me.