Aura ONE "monospace" rendering

[rtiangha]

Thanks, Jackie. I'm just bored (I did edit my message to reflect some things that popped into my head right after I posted though) but don't know how to extract the strings from those library files to see how things work myself. Anyway, there are so many free monospace fonts that can be used commercially. Tossing one in there by default would stave off so many complaints.

And yeah, I use the patch. This is just an exercise for the reader while I wait for a certain book to come out, lol.

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by ratinox

And they're all terrible. I find Cousine to be less terrible than most and that's what I use in my xterms but I have yet to find a monospaced typeface that doesn't look garbage on small devices.

You have ones like Source Code Pro:

https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro

or Fira Code (includes tons of programming ligatures):

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

You have ones like Source Code Pro:

https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro

or Fira Code (includes tons of programming ligatures):

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

Code fonts are good for code but not so good for general reading.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ratinox

Code fonts are good for code but not so good for general reading.

This thread was started by a poster who was upset that he would have to add a monospaced font to his Kobo to get an ebook with HTML code examples to line the examples up properly. I checked my collection and found 9 books with a monospaced font used. 5 of them had the font embedded, 4 didn't. With the 4 that didn't, my ereader with a sideloaded monospace font and the patch to point to that font as the default monospace worked. So 9600 books and 4 that didn't work? About .04%.

BTW, the most common uses for a monospaced font was for computer output and text messages. The only book I owned where it made a real difference to me was the computer text output in Andy Weir's The Martian. Text messages? When was the last time you saw a text message in a monospaced font in the real world?

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by DNSB

BTW, the most common uses for a monospaced font was for computer output and text messages. The only book I owned where it made a real difference to me was the computer text output in Andy Weir's The Martian. Text messages? When was the last time you saw a text message in a monospaced font in the real world?

Don't go by me. My email program (Sylpheed if you're curious) is configured to display email in 80 column monospace the way Ray Tomlinson intended it to be seen.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ratinox

Don't go by me. My email program (Sylpheed if you're curious) is configured to display email in 80 column monospace the way Ray Tomlinson intended it to be seen.

Sheeshh... You are skewing the bell curve for the rest of us.

[snarkophilus]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Sheeshh... You are skewing the bell curve for the rest of us.

Since we're already skewing, I still read email using nmh on a unix server.