Distinguishing O from 0, 1 from l and I, ' from ` are rather a common interest among professional programmers.
See, for example: http://hivelogic.com/articles/view/top-10-programming-fonts http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/05/01/top-10-programming-fonts/ On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Yuvaraj Athur Raghuvir <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > When reading through 'The Design of APL' I came across this: > " Italics were initially favored because of their common use for denoting > variables in mathematics, but were finally chosen primarily because they > distinguished the letter *O* from the digit 0 and letters like *L*, > and *T*from the graphic symbols (paste does not work for the symbols)" > > So, I thought that was a cool idea and wanted to set the fonts on my J to > italics. > > But this does not work!! Any clues? > > 'Bold' works but not 'italics'. > > I am running J602a on Windows XP 32. > > Regards, > Yuva > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
