Searching: font with slashed zero
Jeff Stafford
I need a font that will print zeroes with a slash through the middle. Can
anyone direct me to such a font?
I noticed in MS Excel that the "Terminal" font displays a slash through the
zero on the screen, but the printer doesn't print it that way. Does anyone
know how to make the printer print the font as it appears on the screen?
TIA,
Jeff S.
Thomas Ferguson
Douglas Marquardt
Hi Jeff:
>I need a font that will print zeroes with a slash through the middle.
ASCII Code 0216
Printer.Print Chr$(216)
Hope this helps,
Doug.
Thomas Ferguson
ASCII 0216 is a letter O with a slash, the Greek letter. It does not
match numerals too well, IMO but can be useful in a pinch. In WinWord
or WordPerfect, an overstrike of 0 with / is sometimes suitable.
Tom
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Douglas Marquardt wrote in message ...
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Alan Donovan
Thomas Ferguson <rea...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ASCII 0216 is a letter O with a slash, the Greek letter. It does not
> match numerals too well, IMO but can be useful in a pinch. In WinWord
> or WordPerfect, an overstrike of 0 with / is sometimes suitable.
Er, it's not a Greek letter; it was invented in the sixties to
distinguish zero from capital letter O as before computers the
distinction hadn't been so important (witness cheapo typewriters
that had no one or zero: you'd have to use lowercase L and capital
O). The Greek letter omicron is O overstruck with - (hyphen).
pedantically,
alan
Edward K. Dunham
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998 02:29:51 -0800, "Alan Donovan" <a...@adherent.com>
wrote:
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If you really want to be pedantic, an "O" overstruck with a "-" would
give you not omicron but theta.
Rob
Actually, isn't omicron just plain O and the "O with hyphen" is theta?
Rob
Alan Donovan wrote in message <01bd5365$985ac610$106283c1@adpc16>...
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>Thomas Ferguson <rea...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> ASCII 0216 is a letter O with a slash, the Greek letter. It does not
>> match numerals too well, IMO but can be useful in a pinch. In WinWord
>> or WordPerfect, an overstrike of 0 with / is sometimes suitable.
>
>
>Er, it's not a Greek letter; it was invented in the sixties to
>distinguish zero from capital letter O as before computers the
>distinction hadn't been so important (witness cheapo typewriters
>that had no one or zero: you'd have to use lowercase L and capital
>O). The Greek letter omicron is O overstruck with - (hyphen).
>
>pedantically,
>
>alan
Peter Goodman
getting way off topic here..
"Omicron" capital = O, lower case = o, (no hyphens)
A lower case "Phi" however could be written as an O with a / through it.
Peter Goodman
mcji...@fs1.me.umist.ac.uk
Bob Flaminio
Alan Donovan wrote in message <01bd5365$985ac610$106283c1@adpc16>...
>Thomas Ferguson <rea...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> ASCII 0216 is a letter O with a slash, the Greek letter. It does not
>> match numerals too well, IMO but can be useful in a pinch. In WinWord
>> or WordPerfect, an overstrike of 0 with / is sometimes suitable.
>
>Er, it's not a Greek letter; it was invented in the sixties to
>distinguish zero from capital letter O as before computers the
>distinction hadn't been so important (witness cheapo typewriters
>that had no one or zero: you'd have to use lowercase L and capital
>O). The Greek letter omicron is O overstruck with - (hyphen).
>
>pedantically,
OK, since we're being pedantic, alt-0216 (Ø) was not invented in the 60s
either; rather, it is a character from several Scandinavian languages. (Now,
if only I spoke one of them, I could give you an example, but the best I'll
be able to come up with is "møøse" :-) .)
And it's a *theta* that looks somewhat like an O overstruck with a hyphen.
As far as the original poster's question, the only one that I have that came
with Windows appears to be "Terminal" (not a TT font). Check with the big
type foundries, and I'm sure they'll have something more appropriate.
-Bob
Thomas Ferguson
Ok I promise to be more careful naming letters and their source
language :-)
On the point of the original poster - a font with a slashed zero for
the PC - I still have not come across such a thing except Chicago as
converted from the MAC. I have not checked with any sources such as
The Font Bureau and others to see if they have sim for PC.
One has to check to make sure the font actually prints without
substitution in the case of those like Terminal. Some are regarded as
screen only and are substituted for printing. Example: Bob's
Sample.dot has Courier New substituted on my Win95 box with the
Panasonic 1124 presently set as default.
Doug wrote in message
<#XeBIK6U...@uppssnewspub04.moswest.msn.net>...
:I won't bore you by reposting all the philosphy of letters part...
<SNIP>
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:The Terminal Font that shipped with Win 3.1 supports it. Also the
:PCP437TT.TTF (shipped with Procomm Plus for Win 3.1) has the slashed
zero.
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:I've attached a sample for any that are interested. Its a Wordpad
.DOC
:file. (its really pretty lame).
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:Doug
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:Bob Flaminio wrote in message ...
:>Alan Donovan wrote in message <01bd5365$985ac610$106283c1@adpc16>...
:>>Thomas Ferguson <rea...@hotmail.com> wrote:
:>>> ASCII 0216 is a letter O with a slash, the Greek letter. It does
not
:>>> match numerals too well, IMO but can be useful in a pinch. In
WinWord
:>>> or WordPerfect, an overstrike of 0 with / is sometimes suitable.
:>>
:>>Er, it's not a Greek letter; it was invented in the sixties to
:>>distinguish zero from capital letter O as before computers the
:>>distinction hadn't been so important (witness cheapo typewriters
:>>that had no one or zero: you'd have to use lowercase L and capital
:>>O). The Greek letter omicron is O overstruck with - (hyphen).
:>>
:>>pedantically,
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:>
:>OK, since we're being pedantic, alt-0216 (Ř) was not invented in the
60s
:>either; rather, it is a character from several Scandinavian
languages.
:(Now,
:>if only I spoke one of them, I could give you an example, but the
best I'll
:>be able to come up with is "mřřse" :-) .)
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