13 Dec
2010
13 Dec
'10
4:21 p.m.
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I forget who, but someone wanted the letter 'O' to have a dot in the
center.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Another skill to be learned was the ability to
block-print neatly and
legibly, differentiating "1" from "I", "0" from
"O", etc. It was all
uppercase, so that simplified things somewhat. To this day, I still
put a line through my "7", although I've dropped the stroke through
my zero as most people find it to be confusing.
A long time ago, there used to be some people who put slashes through the
letter 'o', to differentiate it from the numeral '0'. Are they ALL dead
now?
One of MICROS~1's early attempts at OCR on their order forms gave examples
of how they wanted the letters formed, and included slashing the letter
'o'!