On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 07:11:51PM -0500, Cory Myers wrote:
> “A capital W takes up 10 times the space of a period,” he said.
> “If a student writes 163 characters that include lots of Ws and
> m’s and g’s and capital letters, their 163 characters are going to
> take many more inches of space than someone who uses lots of I’s and
> commas and periods and spaces.”
>
> Asked why the problem had not been fixed, Mr. Killion said, “Believe
> me, if there’s a way to do it, we’d do it. Maybe there’s a way
> out there we don’t know about.”
How about not requiring an *electronic* application to meet the
constraints of a *printed* page?
How about using a fixed-width font? Or even a smaller point size for
their proportional font?
Hate.
Deep hating.
