RE: Emulator Font

["Jerry Adams" <midrange@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to everyone.  The slash in Consolas is even better on my fading
eyesight than the 0 w/dot.  

Jerry C. Adams
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IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Troy Foster via MIDRANGE-L
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2022 8:33 AM
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Cc: Troy Foster
Subject: Re: Emulator Font

I use Consolas. 0 has a slash

On 6/30/2022 7:51 AM, John Yeung wrote:
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> Distinguishing between the capital letter "oh" and the digit zero is
> perhaps the single most fundamental thing that makes a font
> programmer-friendly. The next biggest thing is having distinct lower
> "ell", capital "eye", and number one.
>
> These things are built into the font, so you have to pick a font that
> is expressly designed with programming in mind. As mentioned, Lucida
> Console is not.
>
> My strong preference for ACS font is JetBrains Mono. I have found this
> even better than IBM 3270 (which I loved in Client Access and its
> successors but not in ACS). This not only has highly distinguishable
> glyphs, it has the distinction of having the 'g' and 'q' descenders
> NOT blend into the underline, which is actually a problem in the vast
> majority of fonts that I have tried for 5250 emulator use (and I have
> tried MANY!). To top it all off, it was not only designed for
> programming, but it was designed to be rendered well by Java (because
> JetBrains makes various IDEs implemented in Java). And this last thing
> is what makes it even better than other excellent programmer-friendly
> fonts ***when it comes to ACS***, which has some Java-based rendering
> issues. (For most other terminal/editor/IDE software, I find other
> choices equal to or better than JetBrains Mono.)
>
> John Y.