Hi Chen and all,
I already have those fonts, not the Ounava but the Monaco on several
M*S W*S PC's here around.
Great suggestions, TNX
My note on to get it written or visible was related to the pure ASCII
mailing here on the list.
If I manage to have Monaco instead of plain vanilla fonts on my
application of the moment
I could get much better the differences. Appending here the log of MMTTY
graphically enhanched may have eased up the readability as with a more
pictorial or WYSIWYG style.
Then, relating again to the start of the discussion I have seen on my
log the firs callsign trow in with a Oscar and the second call with a
Zero. I or the other operator here picked up the second, just a case of,
so we have CALLSIGN/ZERO on the log. The MMTY couldn't be wrong. A bit
change from Oscar to Zero is highly difficult, as far as I could imagine.
So my tough was about the real character received here, and there where
TWO, and not the visualization of the same two. Nonetheless a
Monaco-like font in the MMTY may have added more at the time the That's
all.
BTW I got the Monaco font for free looking on the net ... it doesn't
have the advantage of a native presence inside M*S W*S, like Consolas,
but IMHO is more readable. But just at home I forgotten to move the
Monaco set on the IQ1RY computers ... net time a properly Consolas setup
inside MMTTY will solve this small dilemma.
TNX fr info.
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
On 17/07/2011 21:37, Kok Chen wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2011, at 11:49 AM, iw1ayd wrote:
>
>> Much better with the slashed zero font, if it could get here, then you
>> will see a Oscar for the first and a Zero for the second call received on
>> the
>> fourth line ...
>
> You might be able to find a font that has a slash through the zero.
>
> Try the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, or the Onuava font (/) for example. Some
> fonts identify zeros with a dot in the center, but even they too might be
> hard to read in the heat of a contest. The Ornuva's zero's appendage is
> somewhere between a slash and a dot :-)
>
> (http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/Onuava.htm)
>
> On the current Mac OS X, both the Monaco and the Osaka Regular-Mono that
> ships standard with the OS are mono-spaced fonts with a slashed zero.
>
> Many fonts do not have a slashed zero. Because of that, cocoaModem provides
> an option to convert zeros upon reception to display the Unicode 216 (usually
> ASCII 175 decimal) on the screen. Unicode calls this the "Latin Capital
> Letter O with Stroke" (see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø;).
>
> The reason I had included that function is because my favorite font to use on
> digital modes is Adobe's Tekton Oblique, and that font does not have a
> slashed zero. However, its Scandinavian slashed O looks very nice.
> (http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.htm?productid=49185)
>
> For that matter, Ornuva font also has a nice Scandinavian slashed-O.
>
> You might check if your software can do this character substitution for you.
> If not, it is a function that should be trivial for the developer to add.
>
> Just be sure that when you click on the word on the screen, the program will
> also convert it back to a true zero before transmitting :-).
>
> 73
> Chen, W7AY
>
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