Re: Favorite Font

Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> writes:

On 13 Apr 2025 18:56:47 GMT, rbowman wrote:
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Most of the editors I use only say 'Monospace'
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A text editor, and that includes email and Usenet editors,
should always use a monospaced font.  Otherwise such things
as ASCII art and even line breaks will be distorted.

More importantly, a variable-width font fails the principle of least
astonishment. :)  Seriously, when you press a key you should be able to
predict exactly what's gonna happen on the screen and that's much more
the case with a monospaced font than with a variable-width one.

The reason we need high-precision in predicting what's gonna happen is
so we get a sense of control while using software and the computer in
general: this sense of control is likely a major source of the pleasure
of using a computer system---though there are others.