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    • CommentAuthorhenon
    • CommentTimeJun 17th 2007 edited
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    If it is possible please don't restrict to fixed (monospaced) fonts. The reason why I will never get away from scite is its support for those. code won't be using up so much horizontal space with a nonfixed font.

    annother good thing of nonfixed fonts is, that it makes no sense to align code lines like this:

    blablabla bulibulibo asdf
    blabla__ buil_____ asdddfs

    (_ stands for space)

    doing so is a great wast of time, because if something is changed then all the pretty alignment is wasted.
    but why. without alignment the lines are readable too. in fact if you are used to it, there is no difference.

    blablabla bulibulibo asdf
    blabla buil asdddfs

    to conclude: monospaced fonts waste space and they motivate to do too much aligning which is just a waste of time.
    by getting away from stupid monospaced fonts these things will all fade away :)
    ... so please add all types of fonts like in scite

    -- henon
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      CommentAuthordflock
    • CommentTimeJun 24th 2007 edited
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    Henon, while there’s no UI for it, you can actually make Intype use any font you like. Just edit the config file in the intype/config folder. Mine’s in:

    C:\Program Files\Intype\config\preferences.itConfig

    and looks like this:

    { options : { max_recent_files : 10 line_ending : 'CR+LF' indent_size : 4 indent_with_spaces : false encoding : 'UTF-8-PLAIN' } editor : { line_padding_top : 0 line_padding_bottom : 0 theme : 'Twilight BG FG Dunc' font_size : 11 font_name : 'Consolas' } }

    Just change the font_name setting to whatever font name you like – mine’s currently set to ‘Consolas’.

    While I don’t really agree with henon – I can’t really see myself using variable width fonts for coding – I don’t really see why Intype should prevent people doing so if they wish. Maybe this should be in the UI, maybe not.

    On a related note, I have an up to date version of Monaco, converted from the Mac which I wouldn’t mind using with intype, but it doesn’t show up in Intypes font list because Intype doesn’t think it’s a Monospaced font (presumably the appropriate flag wasn’t set in the font file). Allowing you to choose any font in the UI would make it easier to solve this too.

    Dunc

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    With new editor, non-fixed width fonts will be available also in the preferences combo.

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      CommentAuthoryarden
    • CommentTimeJul 11th 2007
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    yey!