Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-25 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Mark Lentczner mark.lentcz...@gmail.com wrote: (apologies for keeping this tangential topic alive for so long... but it is the cafe... and it is all for a good Haskell related cause...) ... Ah, the indomitable Mr. Parker, we meet again! While the other console

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-24 Thread Tobias Dammers
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 09:18:18PM -0700, Mark Lentczner wrote: Thanks all, I’ve got what I needed. Brief results; Big variety in window and text sizes, but very few font and color choices. More than half the terminals seem to be basically default settings. Well, there's only so many

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-24 Thread Mark Lentczner
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Tobias Dammers tdamm...@gmail.com wrote: Well, there's only so many monospace fonts that are beautiful, reasonably unicode-complete, easy on the eyes, programming-friendly AND free (-ish). Not really quite so true: I easily came across about a dozen that are

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-24 Thread Tom Ellis
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 08:02:17AM -0700, Mark Lentczner wrote: And yet, just four fonts make up over 75% of the sample - and two of those are essentially identical! Inconsolata and Consolas? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-24 Thread Tobias Dammers
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 04:09:22PM +0100, Tom Ellis wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 08:02:17AM -0700, Mark Lentczner wrote: And yet, just four fonts make up over 75% of the sample - and two of those are essentially identical! Inconsolata and Consolas? My bet: - Bitstream Vera Sans Mono -

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-24 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
I leave my terminal with the default font that comes with Ubuntu, mainly because sometimes I like to enlarge its size effortlessly. OTOH, on emacs I use GohuFont-10, which is quite nice. I'm not on a retina display though. Cheers, On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Tobias Dammers

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-24 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 06/24/2013 06:18 AM, Mark Lentczner wrote: Thanks all, I’ve got what I needed. Finally, 15% seem to be using horrid bitmap console fonts. _How can you stand to look at them?!?!_ (Don't worry, you'll have Plush soon enough...) ​ I realize this is probably a bit tongue-in-cheek, but for my

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-24 Thread David Thomas
I haven't found a font that really works well for Nethack in a while... lemme know if anyone has suggestions :-P On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Bardur Arantsson s...@scientician.netwrote: On 06/24/2013 06:18 AM, Mark Lentczner wrote: Thanks all, I’ve got what I needed. Finally, 15%

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-24 Thread Evan Laforge
Inconsolata and Consolas? My bet: - Bitstream Vera Sans Mono - DejaVu Sans Mono - Inconsolata - Whatever the default terminal font is on OS X A bit of a tangent, but a while back I tried a bunch of those recommended programmer fonts, and I didn't like any of them better than the default

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-24 Thread Conrad Parker
On 24 June 2013 23:02, Mark Lentczner mark.lentcz...@gmail.com wrote: Again, I'd say the sample doesn't bear that out. The samples with console fonts showed no signs of customization, and so one might infer that it is more likely that people are using them because they just came that way

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-24 Thread Mark Lentczner
(apologies for keeping this tangential topic alive for so long... but it is the cafe... and it is all for a good Haskell related cause...) The two fonts that are essentially identical are DejaVu Sans Mono and Menlo. Both derive from Vera Sans Mono, and in the ASCII range are different in only a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/22/2013 11:09 PM, Evan Laforge wrote: You're overthinking it. I just sent a whole screen. You're probably right; done. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-23 Thread Mark Lentczner
Thanks all, I’ve got what I needed. Brief results; Big variety in window and text sizes, but very few font and color choices. More than half the terminals seem to be basically default settings. Finally, 15% seem to be using horrid bitmap console fonts. _How can you stand to look at them?!?!_

[Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-22 Thread Mark Lentczner
As you may know, I've been writing a shell in Haskell called Plushhttps://code.google.com/p/plush/ . I'm working on the look of the terminal input and output, and I want to do a little data gathering. I want to know what your terminal looks like! You can help me by: 1) Download this file:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/22/2013 01:28 PM, Mark Lentczner wrote: 3) Do not resize the terminal window and 5) Take a screen shot of the whole terminal window are mutually exclusive? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-22 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.comwrote: On 06/22/2013 01:28 PM, Mark Lentczner wrote: 3) Do not resize the terminal window and 5) Take a screen shot of the whole terminal window are mutually exclusive? No, he wants a window shot, not a whole-screen

Re: [Haskell-cafe] tangential request...

2013-06-22 Thread Evan Laforge
You're overthinking it. I just sent a whole screen. On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 06/22/2013 01:28 PM, Mark Lentczner wrote: 3) Do not resize the terminal window