RE: Font choices

["Chantel Brathwaite" <brathwaitec -at- castupgrade -dot- com>]

David,

Thanks for sharing that information - I'll take a look at the font.  I
recommended courier primarily because it is ubiquitous and because she asked
for something that would work online and in print - and I assumed that
online might mean the web (although it could just as easily be a PDF or some
other sort of document).  I agree though, that there can be some character
confusion when it comes to courier.  Good point!

Chantel


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Subject: RE: Font choices

Chantel,

In my opinion, courier is a terrible choice for code samples--too much
confusion between similar characters (lower case letter l and number
1, capital letter O and zero, for instance).

There are many newer choices that are actually designed for this sort
of thing. Consolas, for example, seems far superior. You should be
able to download it at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-48
07-8a86-b3d36fab68d3&displaylang=en

David

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 09:00,  <techwr-l-request -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> wrote:
> From: "Chantel Brathwaite" <brathwaitec -at- castupgrade -dot- com>
> To: <suzchiles -at- gmail -dot- com>, "'Roberta Hennessey'" <rahennessey -at- gmail -dot- com>
> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:05:44 -0500
> Subject: RE: Font choices
> I agree with Suzanne - different fonts can be confusing, plus not everyone
> is able to differentiate between two different fonts with ease. I use
either
> bold or italics to differentiate between what is required and what is
> optional.  I use courier or some other type of monospaced font for code so
> it is easy for people to see if spaces are present. For example, I might
use
> courier for the entire line of code and apply italics only to the parts
that
> are optional.
>
> Chantel
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