On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 6:50 PM, hteller <[email protected]> wrote:

> Very true, Jim, especially as the eyes get older. Bigger, darker, letters
> are easier to read, especially for those who try not to have to use glasses.
> We could add an all upper case print option for the mixed case modes. It
> does not take much code to do that.
>

Also, a sentence-case mode (cap after a period, that sort of thing) and
conversions by select text, and convert to upper and/or lower. You don't
need caps/nocaps to communicate... just to make it pretty.

If there's one character set, saying it "is" upper case or lower case is
kind of silly, eh? It's a matter of one bit in the display programming. If
you have good eyes and can easily see serifs and such, then maybe l/c is
best for you. If not, u/c might be better because the things that
discriminate the characters from each other are spread over a larger area.

Kind of like the difference between SGML and HTML here... who controls the
markup? The designer guy who says "the mode has only upper case" or the
operator who says "the heck you say, it'll all be lower, with auto-caps on
sentence starts and all caps in calls, thank you very much."

Ben
--AA7AS
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