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[iw1ayd]

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
>