Re: ACS font (was: Way to programmatically ...)

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 08/07/2017
01:00:02 PM:

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Aug 2017 12:48:48 -0400 -----

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Re: ACS font (was: Way to programmatically ...)

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 10:54 AM, <MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is part of the reason I choose to have the font size fixed and
the window adjust automatically to fit the font.

That fills the window, but I think all the fonts look lousy that way.

That's an interesting optical illusion then, because any font that you
can see in full-screen mode (or fixed-window mode) is a font that you
can see in adjustable-window mode.

Yes I can see the fonts, but they aren't rendered as cleanly. Of course,
this may be due to monitor resolution or a number of different
issues--possibly even including the driver for my graphics card.

I've looked at the font. I was immediately turned off by no slashes or
differentiation of any kind between 0 (zero) and O (capital Oh).

Perhaps

customizing characters might fix that--I never went that far looking

at

it.

Are you absolutely sure we're talking about the same font? The person
who created it specifically had programming in mind, and all the
defaults are programmer-friendly.

John Y.

I had looked at the introductory page . . . oh, probably years ago using
Firefox with the NoScript add-on. So what came up without JavaScript
allowed on the page had several "tiles" and in each of those every
occurrence of a zero didn't have a slash. I never looked any further.
Today going to the preview page (or enabling JavaScript), I see that there
are options to have a dot or slash in the zero. I downloaded the font and
generally I like it--however, I can't get it to show as an option in ACS.
It looks alright in RDi. I've grown accustomed to my current choice there
so it might take some getting used to before it would be my first choice.

Thanks for pointing it out.

I'll make it available to a couple other RDi users--they might really like
it. I'll also do some more research as to why I'm not seeing it in ACS.
Other OpenType fonts are available without an issue. The help text for
font properties from the font window for ACS lists some criteria that I'll
have to look into.

I think someone earlier in this thread mentioned that it's a very
subjective topic. I have to agree that there are a lot of things which
simply come down to personal preferences.

Thanks again,
Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way International
www.TheWay.org
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