I've gone beyond checking the others once and a while...Arial is pretty much the only font I appreciate anymore (though I do have a certain collegiate love of Comic Sans...a font I used to used "back in the day")
I have known people thru the years who are fontmeisters (tm) (lol), ie, they are folks who work in English departments and other Fine Arts and Social Science areas that built their own fonts, and as I recall, they've always claimed that font editing was easy...Then again, that's what I've always said about Calculus or sus13 chords on the 12-string guitar.... However, I see your point, and perhaps this is a way that the desired goal could be achieved for print. Though I don't have time to look right now (working frantically on a rather large Boeing contract), I'd bet that there is at least one freebie font editor out there for download that would do the job quite nicely. If I do find a spare moment, I'll try to hunt down an appropriate editor and maybe we can try this thing you're proposing. I think it's actually be a useful font to have around, even if for no other reason than for the fun of printing documents written using it... Regards, aj >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerhard Fiedler >Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:58 PM >To: Protel EDA Discussion List >Subject: Re: [PEDA] 99SE install on Win XP problem > >On 2006-12-27 11:50:17, you wrote: > >>> How about selecting a font that has clearly different symbols for >>> what you want to distinguish? That's usually easy when using a >>> computer, and usually transparent while writing... :) > >> True, but that can be a subjective experience. Most fonts >with unique >> character sets (ie, easily resolvable differences in all characters) >> are a slower read than fonts with less structure, at least for some >> such as myself (I noticed several years ago that I found myself >> re-reading sentences and paragraphs much more often than with >> documents presented in Arial, and I still do). > >Interesting. I know this thing about font preferences, and >every now and then I try some out to see if I like them >better. Much more often than not I go back to what I had before :) > >OTOH, I don't think that e.g. your preferred Arial with some >(quite minor) changes to make the problem characters more >easily distinguishable would be more difficult to read. This >font might be difficult to find, though... (I don't know how >involved it would be to make those changes and create a derived font.) > >Gerhard > > >____________________________________________________________ >You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > >To Post messages: >mailto:[email protected] > >Unsubscribe and Other Options: >http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > >Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > >Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
