Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/06/30/17:26:51
Hi,
Well, to take my own advice (and accept my own chastisement about "seeking"
vs. "asking") ...
<http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm>
You're right. Andale Mono is a good typeface for monospace purposes. It's
taller and narrower than Lucida Console, and I stepped up to 12 point,
cutting my window height from 99 to 92 (with a two-high taskbar +
quick-launch bar). Andale Mono also has a dotted / slashed zero, so for
programmers, I'd say it's excellent.
I still prefer the aspect ratio of Lucida Console, so for now I'm going to
keep two shortcuts in my quick-launch bar, one for starting rxvt with each
of these fonts.
Randall Schulz
At 12:17 2001-06-30, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>Jonadab,
>
>Could you provide a URL for "Microsoft Typography," please?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Randall Schulz
>
>At 11:53 2001-06-30, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
>
>># Thanks for the tips on running rxvt. The fonts are still a problem for me.
>># The font I get with your command line still confuses 1 and l. The courier
>># font used by Pierre's command line does give a different display font,
>>but I
>># don't seem to be able to control it's size very well.
>>
>>Get Andale Mono. This is available free from Microsoft Typography and
>>is far and away the best fixedwidth TrueType font I have seen to date.
>>No Windows system is complete without it, IMO. For that matter, no
>>system that uses TrueType fonts is complete without it.
>>
>>
>>-- jonadab
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