26-11-2018, 04:52 PM
(26-11-2018, 08:50 AM)DONJCH wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Not only have VMS characters been converted to ASCII, but it is possible to use them on this site.
Thanks. I didn't know that. If you don't mind, please insert a few VMS symbols into the Latin text of your next post so that I can see what it looks like.
I tried to insert a VMS symbol into this post while writing it in my word processor. On the Insert Special Character menu, I was presented with thousands of symbols to insert, but I could not find any VMS symbols among them. Of course, I could have briefly switched to a VMS font but then, I imagine, no one would be able to read it except perhaps for a few people that happened to have that same VMS font installed on their computer.
Before asking Microsoft to include VMS symbols in Windows fonts, it would be helpful to first create a good set of VMS symbols. I saw a font called EVA that has nearly two hundred VMS symbols but it it is surely too cumbersome for practical use: it was utter madness to turn every stray mark and handwriting slip into a separate VMS symbol.
There's another font called Currier Hand A which is excellent using no more than roughly 30 symbols. After adding eight or so Hand B symbols from page 57v and one or two overlooked combos, we could send it off to Microsoft.