Hi, I hope to see some of you at the Language Standards Conference in Berlin in a week. If any of you would like to get together next Sunday to do some touring...
Jim Rimmer, a graphic designer and fine letterpress printer in Vancouver, BC, has recently designed and cut a new typeface for Cree in metal for letterpress...
Along with recognizing and using a real abbreviation (see my .sig), I think a sign of literacy is proper use of subscripts and superscripts. All too often, I...
What lovely news, to know that hot type is still being designed and cast! Very nice pictures; imho, worth the wait, if you have dialup. Puzzled: As I recall,...
... The underscore is used to indicate subscripting in the typesetting program TeX, which many computer programmers are familiar with. Sometimes you'll even...
... Type-cutting works as follows. After the designs are made, the punch-cutter cuts the shape of the letter, in reverse (actual size), on the end of a steel...
... 1. Maybe it's the fact that ASCII doesn't support subscripts and superscripts, that typewriters "supported" them only at full character size and only with...
... I see it often in material that was composed in some format that had the equivalent of <sup> </sup> and then copied to plain text. Dad (who teaches...
... Most helpful! The use of braces is information I had hoped to find. ... Gosh, I thought I was a geek; not sufficiently, but not feeling sad about that,...
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:05:14 -0500, Peter T. Daniels ... Peter, thank you, kindly, for explaining the process. I assume that the depth of the punch impression...
... All so true. With plain text, I can understand; however, on a Web page, HTML is all-but universal (FTP directories and such might be exceptions), and subs...
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:19:11 -0500, Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> ... (You must have meant "10e4", btw.) The "e" (or "E") notation is several decades old,...
... No. 1e4. e/E does not mean superscripted or "raised to the power of." It's for scientific notation, it means "times 10 to the power of..." So it is...
... That always bugged me. The idea of such a spoof is good, but the terminology is needlessly verbose. It's just hydrogen oxide, plain and simple. Hydrogen...
Tex Texin dihydrogen monoxide is overkill, but carbon dioxide or co2, is analagous to h2o, so dihydrogen oxide would make sense. And since oh- is the hydroxide...
... Another name I've seen is hydroxyl hydride, reflecting the ionic structure. -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/ "How'd ya like to climb this high...
... The exponentiation operator in Fortran is ** ; still used in Python. -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/ "How'd ya like to climb this high *without* no...
... Nope, he meant "1e4", pronounced "one times ten to the fourth" and equal to 10,000. "10e4" would be pronounced "ten times ten to the fourth" and would be ...
... A matrix is very small -- just big enough to mold one piece of type. You can file the end of the piece of type with a stroke of a file, if necessary....
There are three ways to make a matrix for casting metal printing type. 1. The original way is to file the character onto the end of a piece of soft steel. The...
... Nicholas - Web pages I am building for now on do not use html - they use xhtml and css, and the tags you are thinking about are of little if any use - they...
... I like hydrogen hydroxide; that works. Sort of water-as-a-base. I wonder if you could say hydroxylic acid for water-as-an-acid, (HOH like HCl, HF, etc). ...
... I see your point. I'm really rusty, though! Thank you. A longer form I'm pretty sure I've seen is "1.43 x 10^7", which should be the same value as your...
... Do you mean that <sub>, </sub>, <sup>, and </sup> are deprecated? If so, how does one specify subs. and sups. using xhtml? Surely, CSS wouldn't do the...
... Well, I considered that verbosity to be embellishment of the spoof. :) However, I can easily see your point of view, indeed! In general, what you say is...
... Thank you for the refresher. It's been decades. I remember the Fortran format specifications that included "...fwd..." and "...ewd...". One spoof was that...
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