: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
On 6/10/2013 12:41 PM, Brendon Whateley wrote:
There are two reasons that all caps bother people. The first is
internet convention where words in all CAPS are considered to be LOUD
or SHOUTING. That means all caps emails are seen
On 6/10/2013 10:28 PM, Richard Fjeld wrote:
Phil,
You said: Even into today, HF marine safety and press bulletins and
traffic are transmitted in
upper case because Baudot and SITOR RTTY use International Telegraph
Alphabet Number 2 which does not have lower case.
I'm having a problem
Wikipedia is a great resource for computer/communication
standards. Baudot and its derived code ITA2 have only upper
case, with two characters LTRS and FIGS to determine whether
letters or numbers and special characters are being sent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code
RIchard may be
We're drifting way off-topic. Let's end this thread for now and take it
to direct email if needed.
73,
Eric
List moderotator
elecraft.com
On 6/11/2013 10:26 AM, Phil Kane wrote:
On 6/10/2013 10:28 PM, Richard Fjeld wrote:
Phil,
You said: Even into today, HF marine safety and press
Same goes for those of us who programmed IBM mainframes.
All caps don't bother me for that reason. However, I understand that it
does bother some people, so I avoid it.
What bothers me more is textspeak, especially failure to use mixed
case. Not capitalizing the letter 'i' when used as a
This thread has been closed.
Eric
elecraft.com
On 6/11/2013 2:40 PM, Jim Lowman wrote:
Same goes for those of us who programmed IBM mainframes.
All caps don't bother me for that reason. However, I understand that
it does bother some people, so I avoid it.
What bothers me more is textspeak,
Sorry About the caps, seems like i'm always saying i'm sorry about the use of
capital letters. I have a vision problem, so i'm going to increase the size;
hope this will show up! i like the color blue, but don't know if this will go
to the reflector the way i see it. Wish i cold see better, its
Hi Vincent,
There are two reasons that all caps bother people. The first is internet
convention where words in all CAPS are considered to be LOUD or SHOUTING. That
means all caps emails are seen as yelling at the reader by most.
The second is much more important, and that is that all caps is
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Vincent Diak uncleb...@optonline.netwrote:
Sorry About the caps,...
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Vince, an easy way to make text bigger and easier to read is to press
Control-+ (the Control key and the + key at the same time). You can make
the letters huge, but it won't affect
Note that Capital letters are slower to transmit in the PSK
family of modes due to the way Varicode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicode is defined. While
sending all caps makes PSK look like RTTY, it is noticeably
slower than using mixed case or all lower case.
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
But it doesn't work in all email software when you are composing. I use
Thunderbird and it works to read incoming email, but it doesn't when
Writing or Composing an email. Good idea and worth experimenting, though.
If I were Vincent, I'd make it as large as I need to compose and let
others
Vince,
The reflector accepts only plain text, and I believe the HTML used to
form large size letters and color are stripped off, so everyone sees
only the plain text of your message.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 6/10/2013 3:08 PM, Vincent Diak wrote:
Sorry About the caps, seems like i'm always saying
Here on the Elecraft reflector the text is transmitted as plain ASCII,
meaning that all of the formatting (font size, etc.) is stripped. That won't
fix all caps since capitals and lower case are all individual ASCII coded
characters and go through the system as such. But, if you increase the font
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From: Vincent Diak uncleb...@optonline.net
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 2:08 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
Sorry About the caps, seems like i'm always saying i'm sorry about the use
of capital letters. I have a vision problem, so i'm going
Heh
Ya, what you said.
From: w...@comcast.net
To: uncleb...@optonline.net; elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:01:25 -0500
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
Isn't it amazing that we, as a society, have come to such a cushy existence
that we have
and understand it.
All caps kills my brain.
73,
Bill
K9YEQ
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From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ron D'Eau Claire
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 4:45 PM
To: 'Vincent Diak'; elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Capital
On 6/10/2013 12:41 PM, Brendon Whateley wrote:
There are two reasons that all caps bother people. The first is
internet convention where words in all CAPS are considered to be LOUD
or SHOUTING. That means all caps emails are seen as yelling at the
reader by most.
Sometimes the writer wants
True, Phil, but IMX teleprinters used a sans-serif typeface (e.g. Arial or
Helvetica for the computer crowd ;-), just like the mills (all upper case
typewriters) we used to copy CW.
Maybe it's that experience, but I find typical serif fonts such as Times
much harder to read in all caps.
73 Ron
On 6/10/2013 1:57 PM, EricJ wrote:
But it doesn't work in all email software when you are composing. I
use Thunderbird and it works to read incoming email, but it doesn't
when Writing or Composing an email. Good idea and worth
experimenting, though.
Look into a T-Bird add-on called External
YOU SURE IT'S NOT JUST BAUDOT? RYRYRYRYRYRYRY
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Vincent Diak wrote:
Sorry About the caps, seems like i'm always saying i'm sorry about the use of
capital letters. I have a vision problem, so i'm going to increase the size;
hope this will show up! i like the color blue, but
To: Vincent Diak
Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
YOU SURE IT'S NOT JUST BAUDOT? RYRYRYRYRYRYRY
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Vincent Diak wrote:
Sorry About the caps, seems like i'm always saying i'm sorry about the use
of capital letters. I have a vision
Uncials (lower case letters) were invented by the Carolingians to allow
people to read faster and increase literacy. It is odd that an
unlettered king (later Emperor) started a wave of literacy in the early
middle ages. The same follk also designed the italic font style. It
was named italic
Hi Kevin,
This is probably off-topic^2 (way off-topic). I heard on the 9A1A (AZ
admin net) that there is a move afoot to allow lower case in MARS
messages. This will make things a lot easier to handle for regular
people, but still seems like it's a long ways off.
73,
matt W6NIA / NNN0UET SCA
Interesting! Back in the day if one did not have a mill for copying (often
one wasn't available) we hand printed block letters -- all caps. Indeed, I
passed my 20 WPM Commercial and Amateur Extra CW tests with them.
I just assumed that was how it started back in the early days of Morse that
It is not a rumor. The Navy, at least, is moving to the brave new world of
mixed case. Who knows what perversion will be next, probably that communist
Unicode stuff.
http://www.dodbuzz.com/2013/06/06/navy-scuttles-all-cap-messages/
wunder
K6WRU
On Jun 10, 2013, at 8:04 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire
) for 32 characters.
That was long ago.
Dick, n0ce
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From: Phil Kane
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Capital letters on reflector
On 6/10/2013 12:41 PM, Brendon Whateley wrote:
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