Re: Font madness!

[eddy@cs.ucdavis.edu (arekusu)]

Dave Althoff (dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:

: The person who designed the GS/OS font "Shaston" ought to be taken out and
: shot.
Too bad it's in ROM.

: a)  The easiest to read on the GS/OS text windows
Well, this is a matter of personal preference. See below.

: b)  All characters are monospaced (i.e. great for doing stuff
:     which is to be uploaded to a 24 x 80 terminal screen)
Not true at all! Shaston is proportional. Compare an l and an M.

: c)  has narrow SPACES?
Because of the above.

: Does there exist a truly monospaced version of Shaston?
You could use Courier. I made a font for a program I am writing, which
is based on Shaston, but is monospaced, and comes in 7x8 and 7x7 sizes,
to fit as many (readable) characters on the display as possible. I
suppose I could stick it on cco and grind if you're interested. All 
printable characters are defined (unlike Shaston...)

: I have a really nice GS/OS text editor that I like to use for creating
: USENET messages and email messages, and it's frustrating when I try to
: create tables and such to have to use Monaco.  Especially since I have to
: use Monaco-12 to get an 80-column display, and that's only about twelve
: lines (instead of 24) in the window 8-(
My font decreases, if not fixes completely, this problem. :)

-arekusu