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From: ed@alt.dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten)
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Subject: Re: Coding in lowercase - references?
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Date: 8 Dec 90 12:20:39 GMT
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tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts) writes:

>My personal, entirely un-scientific opinion on this:

>Despite the various cited research, uppercase can be easier to read
>for the simple reason that since the letters are bigger, they can
>be read from a greater distance than the same text in lowercase.

If you are having trouble *seeing* your listings then maybe you 
should pass them through banner on their way to the printer... ;-)
But seriously, reading is made easier by using a character set
which can be easily perceived.  As the research shows, using
upper-case-only doesn't usually meet that goal for most people. 


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