This has annoyed me on Grotesk-type fonts (Arial, Helvetica etc.) ever since. Write Illinois, you have |||inois (Illi), or at extreme cases ||||NO|S. I thought pI'qaD was pl'qaD. One might distinguish it if they know the syllable structure in Klingon.
In Times, you have troubles of telling apart "1" and "l". That means "1 l" (1 liter) or "l1" (field L1) will be read as "1 1" (one one or eleven).
The worst are the fonts, in which there's written with a | these characters: 1, I, \ (in italics), |, l. That's why I like DejaVu Sans Mono, Consolas and similar, also for their fixed width, so I can navigate between the text more easily and ASCII art on occasion. I don't care it might not work for you if you have your font configuration set otherwise, because you are just dumb if you don't realize what are you losing by not using fixed-width fonts. IBM PC used a fixed width font which looked quite nice.
GNU Unifont is a special case. It is partially proportional since it uses 2 various character width, 8 and 16 pixels. The only downside of this might be the Unicode implementation of full blocks and their shades (░, ▒, ▓, █), which are not explicitly meant to span wide (but are needed with other box drawing characters to be the same width) by the original Unicode specification, but in ANSI they were the same width as a single space. In the place for that space there is "ideographic" or just fullwidth space ( ) on Alt+12287. That means the ANSI art needs to be run trough a filter to display it correctly, especially to fix the distortion by width, when the ANSI art becomes 2x as wide after the space replacing phase because of that. Many fixed width fonts compensate for this by making these simply half-width just as the normal space. The Unicode should really be updated with half-width full/upper/lower/left/right blocks/shades and clarify which one is which or something to stop this mess.
This blog had one font dependency, which is not available on Windows XP and prior: Consolas. And that web font edition doesn't apparently contain the block characters and Czech accented letters. In Chrome these get replaced with ones from Times New Roman (or what), which is not a monospace font although it fits well, so the block ANSI gets fucked up. Replacing with Inconsolata didn't solve the block characters problem, even if the font itself read better (Consolas fit more content at comparable width - 12px Consolas vs 14px Inconsolata). But nowadays every at least a little normal person is using Windows 7 or newer. I'm going to upgrade to Windows 10 when it comes out, until that time, I have to stick with XP because 7 ceased working, including the installation DVD. Maybe it suffocated in it's own feces of log files and crash dumps, the only 300-GB harddisk having only 2 GB free. They were pirated anyway, and they are going to be unless I get them somewhere OEM, when not with lots of crap I can't uninstall, I then format the HDD in about 2 years time and put here a pirated but a better working version. To fix this aforementioned font glitch, you can find a Windows 7 computer, copy the font to a diskette (it's not that big) or flash drive, transfer it on your XP machine and install it there by just trying to copy it in the Fonts directory or control panel. I have switched to Inconsolata because of greater line spacing, Consolas would read more difficult. And this is going to be very important when I will publish my sci-fi novel.
Yes, this blog has been quite less active. Have this thing and stop being sad. I have many school essays to publish here.
In Times, you have troubles of telling apart "1" and "l". That means "1 l" (1 liter) or "l1" (field L1) will be read as "1 1" (one one or eleven).
The worst are the fonts, in which there's written with a | these characters: 1, I, \ (in italics), |, l. That's why I like DejaVu Sans Mono, Consolas and similar, also for their fixed width, so I can navigate between the text more easily and ASCII art on occasion. I don't care it might not work for you if you have your font configuration set otherwise, because you are just dumb if you don't realize what are you losing by not using fixed-width fonts. IBM PC used a fixed width font which looked quite nice.
GNU Unifont is a special case. It is partially proportional since it uses 2 various character width, 8 and 16 pixels. The only downside of this might be the Unicode implementation of full blocks and their shades (░, ▒, ▓, █), which are not explicitly meant to span wide (but are needed with other box drawing characters to be the same width) by the original Unicode specification, but in ANSI they were the same width as a single space. In the place for that space there is "ideographic" or just fullwidth space ( ) on Alt+12287. That means the ANSI art needs to be run trough a filter to display it correctly, especially to fix the distortion by width, when the ANSI art becomes 2x as wide after the space replacing phase because of that. Many fixed width fonts compensate for this by making these simply half-width just as the normal space. The Unicode should really be updated with half-width full/upper/lower/left/right blocks/shades and clarify which one is which or something to stop this mess.
This blog had one font dependency, which is not available on Windows XP and prior: Consolas. And that web font edition doesn't apparently contain the block characters and Czech accented letters. In Chrome these get replaced with ones from Times New Roman (or what), which is not a monospace font although it fits well, so the block ANSI gets fucked up. Replacing with Inconsolata didn't solve the block characters problem, even if the font itself read better (Consolas fit more content at comparable width - 12px Consolas vs 14px Inconsolata). But nowadays every at least a little normal person is using Windows 7 or newer. I'm going to upgrade to Windows 10 when it comes out, until that time, I have to stick with XP because 7 ceased working, including the installation DVD. Maybe it suffocated in it's own feces of log files and crash dumps, the only 300-GB harddisk having only 2 GB free. They were pirated anyway, and they are going to be unless I get them somewhere OEM, when not with lots of crap I can't uninstall, I then format the HDD in about 2 years time and put here a pirated but a better working version. To fix this aforementioned font glitch, you can find a Windows 7 computer, copy the font to a diskette (it's not that big) or flash drive, transfer it on your XP machine and install it there by just trying to copy it in the Fonts directory or control panel. I have switched to Inconsolata because of greater line spacing, Consolas would read more difficult. And this is going to be very important when I will publish my sci-fi novel.
Yes, this blog has been quite less active. Have this thing and stop being sad. I have many school essays to publish here.
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