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Subject:Re: need a font similar to Courier to use From:Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:49:03 -0700 (PDT)
In article 217F6DFA440ED111ACDA00A0C906B0060210EDDE -at- arsenic -dot- rcp -dot- co -dot- uk, sean -at- rcp -dot- co -dot- uk (Sean MacRae) writes:
>
>| Is there a font similar to Courier that takes up less space? I tried
>| Arial, and it solves the wrapping problem, but it doesn't really look
>| like code to me.
>
>If you're using Windows, and a TrueType font is OK, see if you have Lucida
>Console installed as standard. Use that instead of Courier, but drop the
>text size a point or two.
>
>It's a monospaced font which doesn't set any narrower than Courier, but has
>a larger x-height and so should work better at smaller sizes, as a previous
>message suggested.
>
Be careful when choosing monospaced fonts for code: we had a
whole team researching a possible change from Courier. We
were jazzed about changing to Lucida Sans until someone
noticed that the letter "l" and the number "1" looked too
much alike. Often, a capital O will look too much like a zero.
You may want to read a very good article that talks
about (and illustrates) factors in choosing a monospace
font, from U&lc Online magazine:
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