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Aligning the symbols for easy parsing in the "best" example was a nice trick.
by jvanderbot 5y ago
Aligning the symbols for easy parsing in the "best" example was a nice trick.
- gumby 5y agoIn some countries postcards and envelopes are printed with boxes for this purpose: you're supposed to print the post code inside them.
- allenu 5y agoThere's something oddly satisfying about writing individual characters inside boxes. When I watched the video in the post where it converted the written text to characters, my immediate thought was that I wished those characters lined up with what you wrote because it's jarring to just see them rearrange far from where you wrote them out. I was happy to see the later example with the boxes.
- eloisius 5y agoA little unnatural for English, but this would work fine for Chinese script. Each character and punctuation mark is a monospace box. In fact, students practice handwriting by drawing characters in boxes. You can buy little elementary school booklets that have grids of squares for this.