That's an interesting observation, did you try to vary the font size to see if the underscores reappear? DejaVu has lower height, possibly by reducing the descent occupied by the underscore. Also note, that other fonts can be used in Terminal.
----- Original Message ---- From: Brian Schott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Beta forum <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:49:35 PM Subject: Re: [Jbeta] Unicode and Box Drawing font for Mac Oleg and Raul, I have found a problem with using the suggested font in terminal. You may recall that in another thread I told Raul that there must be something wrong with his example construction of triangles for openGL. It turns out that the reason I thought there was an error is that I happened to use the only terminal I have configured on my Mac with the new font specificiation; the result is that all of the underscores for negative signs do not appear. It was only when I tried to cut and paste the result into a reply to Raul that the underscores reappeared. Without the underscores, the output looks like many repeated rows. (B=) On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Oleg Kobchenko wrote: + Note: DejaVu Sans Mono may not appear under + Fixed Width collection, so choose it from All Fonts. + + Box Drawing in Terminal + + - In Terminal menu, Window Settings, select Display + - make sure "Wide glyphs for Japanese..." is unchecked + - select any fixed pitch font, including DejaVu Sans Mono + which has the advantage of eliminating gaps between glyphs + (font size 11-12). + - select "Use These Setting as Default" + - test + 9!:7 (16,:11)];.0 a. + <"0 i.3 4 + + Box Drawing in Safari + + - In Safari menu, Preferences, select Appearance + - In "Fixed-width font" select any fixed pitch font, including + DejaVu Sans Mono. + Note: variate the size and watch the web page window, + around size 12 is good, though size 13 may produce misalignment. + + + ----- Original Message ---- + From: Oleg Kobchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + To: Beta forum <[email protected]> + Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 7:32:15 PM + Subject: [Jbeta] Unicode and Box Drawing font for Mac + + + There is a nice font called DejaVu Sans Mono. + http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/ + It looks better than the standard Monaco and far better + than Courier New with optimal sizes of 11-13. + + It is based on Bitstream Vera fonts known in the + Open Source world, and extended to include + natioanal Unicode and Box Drawing characters. + + Procedure to install + - download the zip file + - extract font files, one is enough: DejaVuSansMono.ttf (the fixed pitch regular) + - Install (drag to /Users/user/Library/Fonts/ or double-clik and choose Install) + - Exist J, Run J again + - Select the font in Configure dialog + - Exist J, Run J again + - try <"0 i.3 4 + + Note: naturally some hierogliphics and box drawing + do not mix well, as the former may come from a different font. + + + ----- Original Message ---- + From: Eric Iverson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + To: beta <[email protected]> + Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:49:42 PM + Subject: [Jbeta] J601 pbeta available for Mac + + + The p beta for Mac (darwin) is available at: + http://www.jsoftware.com/download/j601pbeta_darwin.tar.gz + + Most problems discussed in the forum have been addressed. + + The command key now runs the menu shortcuts. + + All platforms except for the Mac now have nice box draw characters. + There isn't a standard fixed pitch font with box draw characters in a + standard Mac OSX install. Can anyone provide information on a proper + font that can be easily and freely downloaded that will work on the Mac? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
