Path: utzoo!censor!comspec!humvax!becker!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!pmafire!geoff From: geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: Non-Proportional Fonts Message-ID: <1990Nov28.200325.1801@pmafire.inel.gov> Date: 28 Nov 90 20:03:25 GMT References: <1990Nov26.033449.15210@athena.mit.edu> <40169@ut-emx.uucp> <3384@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Distribution: usa Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho Lines: 19 Count me in as another supporter of monospaced fonts for code listings. No, they're not attractive, but the job of source listings isn't to be attractive. They're supposed to be *accurate*. Things like spaces are more improtant in some languages than others, but even in C, where white space is pretty inconsequential, most Mac programmers seem to use Monaco for their programming. Now, if I recall correctly, the originator of this thread was asking for a nice-looking monospaced font. I don't know that there is such a thing. I think about the best you can hope for is something clear, legible, and that says, ``Hey! This is computer code!'' From Font & Function, Prestige Elite looks a little too fancy (more like typewriter output than computer code), but Letter Gothic might have potential. -- Geoff Allen \ Computers are useless. uunet!pmafire!geoff \ They can only give you answers. geoff@pmafire.inel.gov \ -- Pablo Picasso Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com