It certainly is possible to write Windows programs that obtain scan codes corresponding to keypresses from the keyboard, rather than requesting input of ASCII characters. Many game programs do so. Ho… (View Post)
Yes, but the one Piet Hein used was the one with the exponent 2 1/2. Of course, that ellipse resulted from fitting four simple mathematical curves together which would not naturally be closed curves… (View Post)
The conclusion to be drawn from the situation you cite is obvious. The market for paid fonts will largely evaporate once somebody makes a free clone of either Times, Century Expanded, or Baskerville… (View Post)
Is it? It's not as if we can actually do an experiment, setting up two parallel timelines with and without free fonts. But apparently there is some evidence: He goes on to say, though, that the curr… (View Post)
I don't have any suggestions for improving Armenian, but I think that the Latin alphabet should rip off letters from Cyrillic, or otherwise add new ones, so as to have as many as Armenian does - in o… (View Post)