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Re: Horizontal scrolling while posting? (was: Re: whoop de doo)
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Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:25:39 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Salm writes:
> > In lugnet.admin.terms, Todd Lehman writes:
> > > In lugnet.admin.terms, Kevin Salm writes:
> > > > Now, if I could just figure out how to adjust the horizontal
> > > > size of the lugnet posting window so that I can use the vertical
> > > > scroll bar without a lot of horizontal scrolling. I have a 17
> > > > inch monitor but still suffer this dilemna; I sympathize with
> > > > those with even smaller display screens.
> > > and what font size do you use (higher than 12 pt?)?
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> > Netscape v 4.51 is set for Fixed width font Courier 10 allowing
> > document specific fonts.
> > Would I get better results with a different font size?
>
> You might want to try the Lucida Sans (monospace) font at 8-pt if
> you have it on your system, otherwise Terminal at 6-pt.
I wouldn't recommend that people use Terminal unless they don't mind
translating in their heads when people use characters from the upper-
128. Terminal is an OEM font, codepage 437, like the old PC-"ANSI"
BBSes used to use for their graphics. People who use the web
interface, and others who use Windows, seem to assume that people are
using codepage 850 (Microsoft's first feeble attempt at ISO Latin-1) or
1252 (ISO-Latin-1)[1], since that's what Windows uses. If you use
Terminal, then what looks to everyone else like "Selçuk Göre" (that's
c-cedilla in the first name, and o-umlaut in the last) looks to you
like Sel*uk G÷re, where * is a lower case tau and ÷ is a division
symbol.
Personally, I use Terminal because I like the letter shapes. It's
a very readable typeface. If I could find a Terminal-shaped Latin-1
I'd use it in a heartbeat.
I think I liked it better when we all used only the lower 128 to
communicate. Maybe I will like it even better when, at some point in
the distant future, all tools on all platforms support the full ISO-
10646. But I see that the W3 is already working on it. (In a former
life, I wrote Windows-based terminal emulations for my employer.)
Obligatory ;-) goes here.
[1] Or 1250 (Latin-2, Eastern Europe) or 1254 (Turkish), etc.
--
Susan Hoover
Houston, TX
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