Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Quest about 2.0 Workbench Fonts Message-ID: <22055@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 30 May 91 20:30:28 GMT References: <1991May29.132127.908@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <21989@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 28 In article Jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim) writes: >In article <21989@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes: >> Yup. Though there are now two separate fonts: on for titles, etc, and >>the other for consoles (which must be fixed width _for the time being_). > >Excuse me Randal, '_for the time being_'. Uh won't this break tabbing >and etc on the console if its ever anything but? Admittedly, it would >be rather cool to have have proportional spaced consoles that work >properly (i.e. backspace, clipping, tabbing, etc). Wouldn't this slow >the system down terribly though? I remember how sluggish word is on >the Mac. Don't forget, we don't all have 3000's. Ok, I was doing my normal "don't make assumptions" trick. We _would_ like to have proportional console windows at some point, but it's hard to get them to work right. For a while in 2.0 alphas we did have them, until we realized is wasn't a really good idea, and that we didn't have time to do it right. The current "system default font" will probably always be fixed-width (in fact, we considered calling it the "system default fixed-width font", but that's a pretty big mouthful... ;-) Con: windows and console devices may at some point support proportional fonts, though. -- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion. "No matter where you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Banzai