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From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Type Face for Readability
Message-ID: <706@tymix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 14:24:52 EST
Article-I.D.: tymix.706
Posted: Fri Mar 21 14:24:52 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Mar-86 11:21:03 EST
References: <226@dcdwest.UUCP>
Reply-To: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
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Summary: 

In article <226@dcdwest.UUCP> benson@dcdwest.UUCP (Peter Benson) writes:
>Are uppercase only slides less readable than mixed case slides?  I need
>some citations from the literature that would support the contention
>that mixed case is better. 

I have a nutty friend who insists on writing Pascal source in pure upper
case and then expecting me to read the garbage.  I have tried the following
philosophical argument on him:  

	Say, Dave, is all that crappy science fiction you are always reading
printed in upper case?  No?  Well, what would you say the ratio of lower
case to upper case is?  100 to 1 perhaps?  Then, pray tell, for which case
have you had the most reading practice?  

He was not impressed.  I think his problem is that he needs new glasses
:-)
-- 
Herb Kanner
McDonnell Douglas (TYMNET)
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