Jon:
I've been using QS for so long, that I haven't looked at the manual much in
a long time. Since I use QS for notes to myself, it is possible that some
discrepancies have crept in that were not in the manual. When you
mentioned that the half-Wheat or half-Yo weren't in the manual, I thought
you must have overlooked them since their use seemed so obvious (at least
to me!). Apparently at some point, I started using them and had never
thought to check the manual regarding their "official" sanction by Read.
A zigzag in halfWheat and halfWin sounds like a handwriting tip worth
passing on, but probably worth passing up in a computer typeface, like the
"final halfTot." I don't think it would be productive for there to be
alternate alternate letters. Just too complicated.
I concur.
([zig-zag] doesn't seem to be in QM; did you come up with it, or did you
get it from your correspondence with Read?)
For the QM reference to the zig-zag, see page 14: "In some halved
connections a tiny zig-zag or 'step' breaks confusing continuity." I just
applied the zig-zag to half-Win and half-Wheat, which Read did not.
Confusion arises when the vowel continues the same line as the half-Win or
half-Wheat. When there is an angle where the letters connect, it does not
cause confusion so no zig-zag is needed. For example "white" could be
written with half-Wheat followed by Ice with no possibility of confusion.
(I just tried it with Jerome, and it works fine.)
I would recommend IE.
I tried IE and couldn't figure it out either. Maybe I'm doing this wrong.
When I go to options it has a spot to choose a proportional font and a spot
to choose a non-proportional font. If I choose Jerome for the
proportional, then everything in IE that is proportional appears in Jerome.
I can't have an e-mail message partly in Roman and partly in Jerome as I
receive from you. What gives? How do you split an e-mail into two
separate fonts?
Paige
