On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Zsbán Ambrus <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:50 PM, June Kim <[email protected]> wrote: >> Distinguishing O from 0, 1 from l and I, ' from ` are rather a common >> interest among professional programmers. > > Everyone seems to mention those but no-one takes care of > distinguishing : from ; or distinguishing ( from { or ) from } or |
You might want to have a look at Proggy font. http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download In Proggy set, there is a few versions that provide bold punctuation and brackets within the font itself. Scroll down a little bit on the download page. > from l or B from 8. The last one is my personal enemy since I've Distinguishing | from l is very easy in many programming fonts(for example, DejaVu Sans Mono). Since heavily using DejaVu Sans Mono(more than 2 years at least), I made not a single mistake from confusing characters. > confused the hex number 9B with 98 and was quite embarrassed from > that. That was the last straw for me in using bad fonts, and in a few > months after that I've made a good font for myself to use. (Now I'll > just have to draw a larger version of it before I buy a bigger CRT. > Though on second thought the bigger ones don't actually have a higher > resolution per dimension than the small ones so maybe I won't need > that.) > > Ambrus > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
