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DANC4 by Richard Sabey <cryptic_fan@hotmail.com> 9.2003
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This font is based on the "dancing men" cipher used in Sir Arthur Conan
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Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" (DANC),
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which was later published in the collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes".
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The cipher ignores punctuation, and marks a space by a flag held by the
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dancing man for the last letter before the space. The last figure of
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an entire message carries no flag, as there is no need for one. In this
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implementation of the cipher, figures with no flags represent lowercase
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letters; those with flags, uppercase letters. Thus, when FIGletising, you
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should type only the letters, and uppercase the *last* letter of every word
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except the last. For example "Come, Elsie!" becomes comEelsie.
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The messages in dancing-men cipher in DANC didn't use the letters
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FJKQUWXZ. What's more, editions of DANC vary in what mistakes they make in
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the cipher, though they are consistent in using the same figure for P & V.
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To resolve this problem and supply the missing figures, I follow the TrueType
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font designed in 1994 by Martin Bergman of Sweden.
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The positions of the flags have been altered to keep this a 4-line FIGfont.
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