From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Dec 17 07:36:31 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 17 Dec 2002 15:36:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 28208 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2002 15:36:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 17 Dec 2002 15:36:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Dec 2002 15:36:29 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA23414; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:48:53 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200212171548.KAA23414@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:36:04 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] Brochure Aesthetics cont. To: opoudjis@optushome.com.au (Nick Nicholas) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:36:04 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: <1DC96B22-0D19-11D7-8AA3-003065D4EC72@optushome.com.au> from "Nick Nicholas" at Dec 12, 2002 01:59:15 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Nick Nicholas scripsit: > Mixing a monospacish and a proportional font in running text is > disconcerting; but I really would rather lojban text embedded in > English text be in a distinct font. I think we do need the cue, and we > shouldn't be overloading Times italic (which already has plenty to do.) I agree entirely; I merely ask that a monowidth font be avoided because of the problems with monowidth spaces vs. proportional ones. Serif or sans, I don't really care provided I and l and 1 are distinguishable. -- There is / One art John Cowan No more / No less http://www.reutershealth.com To do / All things http://www.ccil.org/~cowan With art- / Lessness -- Piet Hein