True, but that can be a subjective experience. Most fonts with unique character sets (ie, easily resolvable differences in all characters) are a slower read than fonts with less structure, at least for some such as myself (I noticed several years ago that I found myself re-reading sentences and paragraphs much more often than with documents presented in Arial, and I still do). My unqualified theory is that the (my) brain has to deal with more complex visual cues and so has to process slightly longer in order to validate a given character. As the (my) brain is attempting to read at rate dCHAR/dt (standard reading rate for the (my) brain) it chokes on the datastream because it is busy processing the extraneous ornation used by some others to distinguish characters that I routinely distinguish by vernacular connotation. That is, I stumble because my brain gets caught up in all the flowery crud that others use to figure out if an author meant it to be interpreted as a 1 or an "l", when I would use the words wrapping said character to determine if the author meant 1 or "l". The only time when that becomes anything of a nuisance to me is when a serial number, passcode, or similar is presented in print form, and mostly, that's when it fomr is "handwritten".
Regards, aj >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerhard Fiedler >Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 5:27 PM >To: Protel EDA Discussion List >Subject: Re: [PEDA] 99SE install on Win XP problem > >On 2006-12-22 12:06:10, you wrote: > >> Unfortunately, this is a bit academic, since we can't >arbitrarily add >> a slash to a character when using the computer...Okay, so >we probably >> can, but doing so in normal discourse would turn writing >into a total >> pain in the keester. > >How about selecting a font that has clearly different symbols >for what you want to distinguish? That's usually easy when >using a computer, and usually transparent while writing... :) > >Gerhard > > >____________________________________________________________ >You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > >To Post messages: >mailto:[email protected] > >Unsubscribe and Other Options: >http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > >Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > >Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > This e-mail transmission and its attachments may contain information from Avtron Manufacturing, Inc. that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
