On Nov 21, 11:33 pm, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Steve Howell wrote: > > If you are > > going to couple character sets to their legacy physical > > implementations, you should also have a special extra character to dot > > your i's and cross your t's. > > No, no, no. For that device you need to output a series > of motion vectors for the scribing point. Plus control > characters for "dip nib" and "apply blotter", and > possibly also "pluck goose" for when the print head > becomes worn. >
Greg, at the first reading of your response, it sounded overly complicated for me to have to "dip nib" and "pluck goose" every time I just want to semantically indicate the ninth letter of the English alphabet, but that's easily solved with a wizard interface, I guess. Maybe every time I am trying to decide which letter to type in Word, there could be some kind of animated persona that helps me choose the character. There could be a visual icon of an "eye" that reminds me of the letter that I am trying to type, and I could configure the depth to which I dib the nib with some kind of slider interface. It actually sounds quite simple and elegant, the more that I think about it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
