home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Atari Mega Archive 1
/
Atari Mega Archive - Volume 1.iso
/
lists
/
gem
/
l_0799
/
594
< prev
next >
Wrap
Internet Message Format
|
1994-08-27
|
2KB
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 15:12:41 +0100
From: nj1@ukc.ac.uk
To: gem-list@world.std.com
Subject: Digestive...
Precedence: bulk
I prefer HobNobs myself...... Anyway, Here goes..
Annius:
> Neil Jones:
Arrrgghh!! People ALWAYS get the bouble-barreled bit wrong... Especially
receptionists... 'Will Mr. Rodway-Jones please go to surgery one please.'......
>> As there are only two modifiers - Control and Shift-Control - we only need to
>> use one the one character to denote what modifier is needed... perhaps the
>
>If we change them anyway, then I'd suggest go for
>
> ' Control
> " Shift + Control
>
>as those signs are REALLY part of ANY character set. Check out the latest
>WINX versions (beta only at present) and notice that you can't use any
>'nice' font for your windows as the fonts don't have the closer and fuller
>symbols...
I agree that my original choices weren't that brilliant - I made a mock-up of
a menu in Everest last night and it was difficult to distinguish between the two
characters........
Choosing two characters that are standard could be tough, are you serious that
WINX doesn't allow for other fonts?? The monaco font that come with NVDI has
different icons for fuller and so on (not always logical), and as that is
the only widely used replacement font (apart from Warp 9 fonts) I don't see
that there is a big problem...
As for the logo idea... I like it... I think a standard such as this needs a
public face, as it were. Getting developers to accept it is one thing, but we
also need to let the users know about it..... I'll dig my paint package out
tonight and see if I can come up with :)
BTW - is the logo to be colour of mono (or both) - and if it is in colour do
I use the falcon palette or the ST palette?? (I think they're different)
Neil.
--
Neil Jones-Rodway UNIVERSITY OF KENT
Computer Science Student At Canterbury ####