On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 07:43 +0100, Tim Green wrote:
On 6/19/07, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk wrote:
Oh and backspace is where the 1 should be (there is no 1)
Use I or l ?
It is in a poorly state at the moment and under a pile of stuff so I can't tell for sure, but I think the typeface for l is tweaked a bit so as to look like a hybrid between a 1 and a l so perhaps just like pipe |.
It has always struck me as a little strange, because there are a couple of keys dedicated to just symbols (couple of common fractions etc that could easily be expressed as 1/2 etc) so I am sure providing more keys than just qwerty wasn't a problem or even necessarily that expensive.
I guess the driving force is that with a mechanical typewriter if it isn't on the included typeface then you can't ever use it so they wanted to provide as many symbols as possible, and they were further hampered by only having one modifier key.