Does this mean that alpha and omega appear to float a little above the baseline when inserted into a line of plain (e.g. Times Roman) text? If so, that's what the DoA looks like.
On 3/11/07, Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... I say "I believe" above, because I'm relying on memory since I don't have subscription access to the DoA on the ACM site. A sure sign that it was my font is the vertical placement of the Greek letters - I had them on the "function center" so that expressions like <alpha> + <omega> aligned vertically. This was always a controversial choice, and perhaps even more argued was my choice of italic (rather than slanted) lower case alphabetics... Certainly my font was the one used in Eugene McDonnell's "Life: Nasty, Brutish, and Short". ... All of this discussion, and the folks (e.g. Roger and Devon) who wince at the difficulty of displaying old papers are the things Ken thought a lot about when he made the tough decision to leave the lovely APL symbols behind. Practicality over esthetics... - joey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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