Please see the reply I just posted to Bill Lam.


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From: Devon McCormick <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 7:17
Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Notation as a Tool of Thought
To: General forum <[email protected]>

> Roger - this looks very good - it will be an excellent link to 
> have for the
> Turing site.
> 
> However, the APL characters at first appeared not as nice as 
> they could be
> until I loaded the APL385 font onto my machine (and re-loaded 
> the page).
> Now they look fine.
> 
> I don't know what the default was before I did this, but I did 
> see poorly
> proportioned APL characters at first: jot was not centered in 
> the character
> cell, quad was too short, the arrows were too long, and omega 
> was almost
> closed at the top.  It looked like perhaps a proportional 
> font of some kind.
> 
> Does anyone know what font I was getting at first?  It 
> might be good to warn
> people as it was a little confusing to see this ugly version 
> when I first
> loaded the page.  The APL385 version looks like it's 
> supposed to - you can
> see why we like the look of APL when you see it properly.
> 
> Thanks for putting this up.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Devon
> 
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm
> >
> > Please let me know of any errors or problems, in particular
> > problems with the APL characters.
> 
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