Re: [piecepack] JCDpiecepack sample

[Karl von Laudermann <karlvonl@...>]

On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 09:44  PM, porter235 wrote:

> Features of the JCD piecepack
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> All Aces rendered as a "swirly"

I've said this before on this list, but I don't like the swirly as an 
ace symbol. I think it should be replaced with the letter "A", or some 
other text character. The reason is that often when you first dump the 
piecepack out onto the table you want to sort out the coins, turning 
them all face up or face down. Since the swirly symbol is a symbol and 
not a text character like the numbers, your brain naturally parses that 
as being a suit symbol, and it takes extra mental effort to recognize 
the swirlies as value symbols instead. In order to make it easy to 
visually group the coins by face-up and face-down states, the ace 
symbol, like all other value symbols, should be a text character, not an 
arbitrary symbol. So I think it should be changed to the letter "A".

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