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The (Sherlock Holmes) book contains a code which uses dancing
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men as glyphs. The alphabet as given is not complete, lacking
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f, j, k, q, u, w, x and z, so those letters in the font are not
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due to Conan Doyle. The code required word endings to be marked
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by the dancing man representing the last letter to be holding a
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flag: these are coded as A-Z.
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thaTiStOsaYsentenceSiNthEcodElooKlikEthiS. In some cases, the
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man has no arms, making it impossible for him to hold a flag.
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In these cases, he is wearing a flag on his hat in the
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'character'. The font is distributed as Metafont source; it
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works poorly in modern environments, and could do with expert
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attention (if you are interested, please contact the CTAN team
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for details).
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