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Quote Quad and APL font?
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| Roland Besserer 2004-07-25, 3:55 am |
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Just received my hardcopy of the new Quote Quad (hurray) and
immediately noticed that the APL code printed is typeset in the wrong
font! Not sure if 'wrong font' is the right way to say it, as lines
appear partially typeset in APL and partially in - well, no clue
really.
For example, {<-} is printed as ,,
What's up with that? I need a translation table to make sense of the
code :-)
roland
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| Sam Sirlin 2004-07-27, 3:56 pm |
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Roland Besserer <roland@quadsys.com> writes:
> Just received my hardcopy of the new Quote Quad (hurray) and
> immediately noticed that the APL code printed is typeset in the wrong
> font! Not sure if 'wrong font' is the right way to say it, as lines
> appear partially typeset in APL and partially in - well, no clue
> really.
>
> For example, {<-} is printed as ,,
>
> What's up with that? I need a translation table to make sense of the
> code :-)
Actually it looks to me like some APL characters didn't print at all,
so the APL code is then unreadable. I've seen this before with qq. I
guess the character set problem is still hurting us.
Could anyone comment on what input the qq printers use/require?
I've noticed that in fact m$ products don't do very well in terms of
portability - documents written in one machine don't display correctly
on others (even pc's and macs, let alone suns). PDF works much better
(ymmv). For technical printing (e.g. mathematics) I've seen nothing
that beats TeX, and most don't even come close.
Perhaps qq should be "published" online in pdf? At least that way
after it gets out, but is unreadable, it can be fixed and re-posted.
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Sam Sirlin
Email: sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov
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