Coding Fonts - Monospace?

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Coding Fonts - Monospace?

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Hi

I remember at least a couple of topics about what fonts are used for coding,
but I wanted to ask something slightly different:

Is anyone of you guys NOT using mono-spaced fonts?
Myself, I'm using Tahoma for years now...yep, good o'le Tahoma, and I'm happy with it
as it makes code way more readable for me than fonts like Consolas or Courier New. :)

Was just wondering if I'm the only one here since everyone I was asking before was using
mono-spaced fonts. :D
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Re: Coding Fonts - Monospace?

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Ha! Nothing beats Courier New. It saves my brain lots of confusion when viewing tabular data all nice and orderly. I hate TABS!
Though if you want pretty, Cambria is a beautiful font.
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Re: Coding Fonts - Monospace?

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Monospace for me. Always! Always always always.

For PureBasic, C, PHP, Matlab, Verilog, etc., anything code-like. Even plain text files.

Occasionally I try out new monospace fonts, but I always find myself returning to Courier New like skywalk said.

I also prefer highly-aligned code... like = and + operators aligning vertically, parentheses and quotes aligning vertically, and so on.
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Proggy Fonts are quite good and thinner than Courier (New). But no font can beat the Terminal font, as it is the only font that can be displayed good in 4pixel blocks.
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There was a similar thread a couple of years ago and someone mentioned Lucida Console. I switched to it from Courier new at that time and I've used it ever since. I've never come across one I like better. One thing I do in the PB IDE is turn off keyword bolding though, because it throws alignment off. I like nicely aligned code.
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netmaestro wrote:There was a similar thread a couple of years ago.
I remember this...

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 69#p277669
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Vim + DeJaVu Sans Mono = Coder's Heaven

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Nice font, Blood! I wish it didn't had those ugly "dotted zeros", though. :|
By the way...if you guys can get your hands on "Arial Monospaced for SAP" give it a shot.
I use that font at work and I think it's one of the best monospace fonts. :)

But not half as good as using Tahoma. :wink:
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Consolas is perfectly readable here...

Maybe the issue is with your font size :P
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I meant "readable" as in "good looking".
It's just way more pleasing for the eye to look at non-proportional fonts. :)
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