As we teach ourselves to read without consciously noticing the punctuation, it initially bothered me that J relied on easily confused punctuation characters to perform vastly different functions.
I got around this by downloading a free trial version of Font Creator. http:\\www.high-logic.com I then replaced the punctuation characters in Courier New with the same characters from Courier New Bold. A few characters like curly braces. exclamation point, apostrophe, and double quotes were widened to make them more prominent. I saved the new font as J Courier New. It takes a little getting used to, but I rarely mistake a semicolon for a colon anymore. Technically, doing this violates the copyright statement, but I figure that as long as you have both fonts on your computer anyway and you don't sell, or exchange the font with anyone, there seems to be little harm. Win XP had no problem, but Vista doesn't want to recognize the font. YMMV. Dave Porter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
