Re: Default editor fonts

[Lukas Reichlin]

On 23.11.2013, at 15:40, Torsten <address@hidden> wrote:

> I remember a thread where we discussed if the editor default fonts which
> are provided by the qsci-lexers (among them proportional fonts) should
> be replaced by our own defaults. I submitted a patch at
> https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?8246
> with a new version of the default-qt-settings.in where the editor-lexer
> settings are included. The font name and size for the lexers are set to
> the already available  macros %DEFAULT_TERMINAL_FONT% and
> %DEFAULT_TERMINAL_FONT_SIZE%.
> 
> AFAIK the following fonts can be regarded as standard on the different
> platforms
> 
> Windows:     Lucida Console
> Unix-Like:   Courier (Monospace?)
> Mac:         Monaco
> 
> and are chosen in configure.ac depending on $host_os.
> 
> Torsten
> 
> 


Short form:

Windows:     Consolas (standard on Vista and later)
Unix-Like:   DejaVu Mono (?)
Mac:         Menlo (standard on 10.6 Snow Leopard and later)

Long form:
There are good fixed-width/monospace fonts installed by default on non-free 
operating systems. Windows (Vista and later) has the font "Consolas", Mac OS X 
(10.6 and later) comes with "Menlo". Menlo is based on DejaVu Mono. The DejaVu 
font family is freely (as in freedom) available and included in many Linux 
flavours [1]. IMHO Consolas and Menlo are more suitable for programming than 
the typewriter classics Courier and Monaco. They were designed with programmers 
in mind, e.g. I/l/1 are easily distinguishable from each other. I think we 
should set Consolas/Menlo/DejaVu as defaults on Windows/Mac/Linux for the 
console and the editor.

Lukas


[1]
http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Download