Re: ASCII 13 -- apology

[Carl Distefano CLDistefano@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from Eric Van Tassel <101233.342@xxxxxxxx> Tue,
4 Nov 97 16:47:09 +0000

-> Holmgren wrote "Ascii-13 is a musical quarter-note".
->
-> I wrote "It's not; it's a sixteenth-note."...
->
-> Tim Baehr points out "Uh, it's an eighth note. One flag. The
-> ASCII 14 is two sixteenths--two bars tying the notes."...
->
-> I stand corrected. ... If I'd put it in the text and switched
-> to WYSI(more or less)WYG, I'd have seen my error at once; but
-> in the default screen font ASCII 13 looks like it has two
-> flags. Honest.

Golly gee. You're right about WYSIWYG. I so rarely toggle into WZ
view; never even occurred to me to try. But you're also right about
the default screen font: the Ascii 13 does indeed have two flags.
No doubt about it. In my screen-font editor, Ascii 13 and 14 in the
IBM standard font look like this (view in a monospaced font):

 1 ................     1 ................
 2 ................     2 ................
 3 ....ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ     3
..ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ
 4 ....ÛÛÛÛ....ÛÛÛÛ     4
..ÛÛÛÛ......ÛÛÛÛ
 5 ....ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ     5
..ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ
 6 ....ÛÛÛÛ........     6
..ÛÛÛÛ......ÛÛÛÛ
 7 ....ÛÛÛÛ........     7
..ÛÛÛÛ......ÛÛÛÛ
 8 ....ÛÛÛÛ........     8
..ÛÛÛÛ......ÛÛÛÛ
 9 ....ÛÛÛÛ........     9
..ÛÛÛÛ......ÛÛÛÛ
10 ..ÛÛÛÛÛÛ........     10
..ÛÛÛÛ....ÛÛÛÛÛÛ
11 ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ........     11
ÛÛÛÛÛÛ....ÛÛÛÛÛÛ
12 ÛÛÛÛÛÛ..........     12
ÛÛÛÛÛÛ....ÛÛÛÛ..
13 ................     13 ÛÛÛÛ............
14 ................     14 ................
15 ................     15 ................
16 ................     16 ................


I guess the author of that font didn't know his quavers. However...
enough of this. This discussion belongs not here but in
alt.fonts.screen_fonts.musical_subset.Ascii_13_and_14_compared.chara
cter_based_vs_graphical_view, as I'm surprised we haven't already
been reminded. Do I need to do your work for you, Annie? ;-)


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Carl Distefano
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