Roger Hui wrote:
>
> If anything, I would make the dot and the colon _smaller_
> because they are like the accents in à or á .
>
One could slightly modify purely typographically any fixed-width ASCII
font to make J programs more readable by doing these operations:
1) . and : would not be centred in the space they occupy, but shifted
towards
the left edge of their space. This would give both a visual appearance
of extra
spaces between . or : and the next non-blank character as well as
appearance
of closer connection between them and the preceding non-blank character.
For instance, typing f.g. would give text that looks more like f. g. in
proportional
font than f.g. in fixed, even though space would not be typed.
2) @ would be designed smaller, to look more like a circle or two concentric
circles, so that typed f...@g looks more similar to f o g .
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