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Hello G�nther!
On Thursday, June 21, 2001 at 1:11:23 PM you wrote:
> May I sum up your statement "proportional fonts are bad for reading loads
> of text"?
He did not even imply this. There are fonts that work good for
headlines, others are good for body texts. Some types are very good in
print but desperate on the screen.
In print for long body texts variable-pitch fonts with "Serifen" (can't
find the correct Englisch word now) are much easier to read than
others. On the screen types without "Serifen" are usually better.
As for fixed vs. variable depends more on the font in question than on
philosophy. As long as we are talking readability.
I prefer Andale Mono for TB!, but with other applications (i.e. Word
or Corel Draw) I find Helvetica (a/k/a Arial or Swiss) or my private
favourite Humanist 521 much better.
BTW, I've heard people defend Courier, which is nothing other than a
(bad) imitation of a standard typewriter "font".
> Best solution would be to simply give the user the choice, and if I
> remember right V2 will bring us this choice.
You can't actually say that the arguments given by Marck (I think) for
fixed-pitch in TB!'s editor have anything to do with personal taste?
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