Hello Marck D. Pearlstone,
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:59:59 +0100 GMT your local time,
which was Monday, July 03, 2000, 4:59:59 PM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
> Hi Ming-Li,
> On 03 July 2000 at 02:16:12 GMT -0700 (which was 10:16 where I
> live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points on the subject
> of "Tell me your experience with mono-spaced fonts":
ML>> From what I've learned here, the lack of support for proportional
ML>> fonts is the fault of the development tool (Delphi 2) RITLabs uses
ML>> to develop TB,
> There's more to it than that. There are other issues about the fact
> that email is plain text and that, as you say, exact positioning can
> only be achieved with mono fonts.
> This pays dividends for producing formatted text and working with
> indents and columns while still retaining the plain text aspects of
> standard email.
> Also there are repercussions on the centre, right aligned and
> justified paragraph formats when using proportional fonts.
> Having said that, there is a work-around if you *really* have to use
> proportional fonts as follows:
> (posted previously by Alexander V. Kisilev)
> For if you _absolutely_ need variable- width font ..., you
> can go and manually edit your registry, in particular, these
> sections of it:
> HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\RIT\The Bat!\Editor\Font
> HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\RIT\The Bat!\Rich Text
> If you manually edit there the name of the font to be used,
> The Bat! will obey... But be advised, that if, for example,
> you write there "Arial", you'll hardly manage to read
> anything:-)
While I have no intentions to use a proportional font , instead of
telling which looks horrible, what about telling us what looks 'not
bad'!!
Best regards,
tracer
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