[OT] Re: GrandStaff vertical distance

[David Wright]

On Thu 18 Oct 2018 at 05:35:45 (+0100), Brian Barker wrote:
> At 14:40 17/10/2018 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > The # wiki notes that British Telecom used the term "square" for
> > hash at one time.
> 
> Surely not? Rather, they presumably used the term "square" for square
> - which is what was on the spare key on early designs of keyboard now
> occupied by the hash character. See
> http://www.britishtelephones.com/t94xx.htm .
> 
> > I guess this was before the British public had an unambiguous name

(I only mentioned the word square as a mnemonic for square bracket, but
hadn't appreciated the importance of end in the context of SystemStart…
so both my suggestions were unsuitable.)

What you say is perfectly true. The key is still there, and has the
same specification and name(s). All that's changed is that AFAIK no
one in the UK uses the term "square" any more, and "number" would
seem to invite the same problems as the old chestnut "Press any key".
In the US, "pound" is (to me) surprisingly common.

AFAICT, in print the symbol is spelled #, 0x23 ASCII NUMBER SIGN,
and the upright design really only exists as just that: the upright
design variant for that key.

Cheers,
David.