Re: [Gnumed-devel] Request For Comment

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:31:00PM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:

> >> It feels to me that - (or maybe better the wider â ) is less work for 
> >> the brain to process... it means that there is nothing to be taken at 
> >> that time, and not "take a numeric amount of zero"
> 
> An alternative would be the letter "x" if that would be
> internationally understood to denote being "crossed out" ??

I would think the "-" is just about the right balance
between an empty field (which can mean several things) and
"0" (which needs to be brain-parsed explicitely).

Karsten
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