I've been using Consolas for some time. I'd love to give monofur a try, but I can't get it to display as bold on my Mac (Mac OS X 10.5). I'm suspecting it's a Mac thing because the sample in the article appears to show bold. Incolsolata is giving me the same trouble. Does anyone have any suggestions?
-- Brian On May 26, 6:07 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > I just find that monospace fonts cater better to "pattern recognition" > when scanning over chunks of code. Also, it's kind of annoying to move > the cursor up/down with the keyboard, without being able to rapidly > predict what column you'll end up on. Proportional font's also makes > it impossible to do rectangular selections i.e. mark all "public" > modifiers in a declaration block for deletion (perhaps not the best > example, but you get the idea). > > /Casper > > On May 26, 9:18 am, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 06:45 -0700, Chris Koerner wrote: > > > > Just readhttp://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/and > > > > I was curious what the Posse fans like to use. > > > > > (note terminus wasn't included in the list, sadly) > > > > Is it still the case that people are unshakeably committed to using > > > monospace fonts for programming? > > > > I use Ocean Sans MT for all my work whether it be letter writing or > > > code. Code is just another form of document which is used for reading > > > most of the time. So I use a proportional font on the grounds it is > > > easier to read document using proportional fonts than monospace ones. > > > > Whilst this response might seem a troll in many ways, I am genuinely > > > surprised that people just continue to use monospace fonts in an almost > > > "there is no other choice" sort of way -- though I admit monospace fonts > > > have improved dramatically over the years. > > > It's a fair question. > > > I am a bit conflicted because I see two sides to this coin: > > > - ASCII art (neatly aligning parameters, etc...) is usually discouraged > > because it goes to hell as soon as you refactor. From this perspective, > > using a proportional font shouldn't be a problem. > > > - Reading papers that use proportional fonts for code (looking at you, > > LaTeX) drives me nuts. It just feels... wrong. That's a pretty weak > > argument, I know. > > > So yes, maybe it's time to revisit this axiom and start playing with > > proportional fonts... > > > -- > > Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
