Changed font

Post by **b0b** » 17 May 2000 11:30 am

I changed this Forum area to a monospaced font (Courier New). It looks better when someone posts tab without following the instructions.

What do you think? Good idea, or bad?

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Post by **b0b** » 17 May 2000 11:37 am

Here's some tab without the TAB tag:

1 _(F)_______________________________(C)_____
2 ___________________________________________
3 ___________________________________________
4 ___________________________________________
5 _6A-8A___6A__6-4__6A-8A___6-6A__6__2A-3A___
6 _6B-8B___6B__6-4__6B-8B___6-6B__6__2B-3B___
7 _______8________________8__________________
8 ___________________________________________
9 ___________________________________________
10___________________________________________

and here it is WITH the TAB tag: <pre>

1 _(F)_______________________________(C)_____
2 ___________________________________________
3 ___________________________________________
4 ___________________________________________
5 _6A-8A___6A__6-4__6A-8A___6-6A__6__2A-3A___
6 _6B-8B___6B__6-4__6B-8B___6-6B__6__2B-3B___
7 _______8________________8__________________
8 ___________________________________________
9 ___________________________________________
10___________________________________________
</pre>The main difference now is size. Of course, the [TAB] tag can still be used in other Forum areas to force a monospaced font.[This message was edited by b0b on 17 May 2000 at 12:38 PM.]

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 17 May 2000 11:38 am

Great idea. Why didn't somebody think of that before?

Steve Feldman · Post by **Steve Feldman** » 17 May 2000 12:20 pm

I agr ee - b0b-. G oo d th ink i n g.

Cairo Zoots · Post by **Cairo Zoots** » 17 May 2000 1:48 pm

Thanx b0b..Sure is an improvement as far as the size goes. NOW my WalMart cheapo bifocals don't have to work as hard.

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Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 17 May 2000 4:23 pm

It looks good b0b. I'm running 1152x864 with the next to smallest fonts in IE. The timestamps run together and some of the links are so small they're unreadable, but I can live with it.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 18 May 2000 10:13 am

Yeah, the down side is that it affects ALL of the text on the page. The small stuff gets pretty hard to read.

I could switch to Andale Mono, which is more legible. A lot of people don't have it, though. Here's a sample:

First some tab:

1 _(F)_______________________________(C)_____
2 ___________________________________________
3 ___________________________________________
4 ___________________________________________
5 _6A-8A___6A__6-4__6A-8A___6-6A__6__2A-3A___
6 _6B-8B___6B__6-4__6B-8B___6-6B__6__2B-3B___
7 _______8________________8__________________
8 ___________________________________________
9 ___________________________________________
10___________________________________________

Now here's some small text, like you'd see on other parts of the page:

Show Signature: include your profile signature. Only registered users may have signatures.

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What do you think? Should I switch it to Andale Mono?


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Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 18 May 2000 10:27 am

NO.
Andale Mono doesn't seem monspaced on my system; the tab isn't lined up.
I wonder if that's because I don't actually have Andale Mono, and my system is substituting something else.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 18 May 2000 11:49 am

Earnest, I just edited it to include Courier as the second choice. Does it look better on your system now?

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 18 May 2000 3:28 pm

Yep. Looks good.

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 18 May 2000 3:31 pm

Works for me too, b0b. You da man!

Post by **b0b** » 19 May 2000 2:27 pm

Okay, it's now all changed to Andale Mono, with Courier as the second choice.

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Jimmy Youngblood · Post by **Jimmy Youngblood** » 22 May 2000 10:11 pm

Works great with Webtv!