On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Even in GTK, it's still six fonts (five typefaces). And >> that's not counting bold, italics, and underline, which can be >> specified independently for each of the fonts. > > Yes, they *can* but all GTK fonts except font.small and font.text are > the same size and the same family, the only other difference being > sans or serif. There is a big difference between sans and serif. They are very definitely not the same font. Even if you take out font.small and font.text, GTK still uses four fonts in the out-of-the-box configuration of SciTE. And then there are bold and italic as well, which typographically speaking, are yet more fonts. > So I was just making the point in reply to Matthew's suggestion of > putting font on all settings that it can be done, but even when it is > available it is little used and I doubt it is worth the effort to > implement. I fully understand what your point was. I am saying that all these font settings in SciTE are *not* "little used". If you open C++ code and Python code (perhaps the most widely used languages by SciTE users, including its creator) in a clean release of SciTE, you will see there is a wild profusion of styles, sizes, and colors. It's an utter mess, and it is not at all an example of "but all those settings are not used". Because they *are* used. They are used way the hell too much, in fact. > [1] limited check only, I am after all more interested in Geany than Scite :) Yet you seem to persist in arguing with me about SciTE, which is what I use for virtually all my coding. John _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
