On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, seer26 wrote:
> Personnaly, from my own POV, all the different variations of
> DASH and QUOTE are holdovers from the lead-block days of typesetting
> when publishers wanted to make the printed page lok more spiffy.
Hardly. At least to people who grew up reading books printed in
proportionally-spaced fonts, a good hyphen is too short to be a good
minus, and a good minus is too short to be a good phrase-separator dash.
Only if we pretend that typewriter-style monospace fonts are the whole
world -- something we are at last getting *away* from again -- does it
make sense to ignore the differences in appearance.
(My opinions about quotes, although similar, are rather weaker.)
> Anyways, the only thing I would change about the US English keyboard
> would be to rearrange the keys into dvorak layout...
I'd rather have a smaller space bar and a couple of keys under the left
thumb for Return and Backspace. (That would actually produce a bigger
speed improvement than the Dvorak layout.)
Henry Spencer
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