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In lugnet.admin.general, Bram Lambrecht wrote:
> Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> writes:
> > Ahh, good point. I used Terminal 6pt for everything in the old
> > days, but that was before +128 was a big deal. I'd forgotten about
> > the character set of Terminal.
>
> I use 8 pt. Fixedsys (the font Notepad uses) for email, html
> editting and other applications which require a fixed width font.
> It's very easy to read, easier than Terminal, IMO, and much easier
> than Courier, which is usually too light-weight. It's also one of
> the few fonts, like Terminal, in which you can instantly tell a 0
> from an O. It has most (if not all) of the +128...
> but that means you can't draw pictures like you can with Terminal :)
Just tried both Lucida Console and FixedSys. They are both lighter
weight and have a different aspect (taller vs. width) than Terminal, so
either one will take some getting used to. I use Terminal for just
about everything -- newsreading, coding (which is how I spend most of
my day), and of course, running stuff in the command prompt.
Sigh. I can see it's time to hack up another typeface like I did in
1987 when Monaco didn't quite make the grade for BBSing (it also
suffered from the O/0 similarity and was missing some characters, but
not after I got done with it)...
Just send this thread off to o-t.geek whenever you feel like it. :-)
--
Susan Hoover
Houston, TX
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