On Feb 18, 2015 11:47 PM, "Warren Young" <w...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2015, at 11:04 PM, Andy Bradford <amb-fos...@bradfords.org> wrote: > > > > I prefer monospaced fonts for most things that I do with text. > > We have hundreds of years of evidence that it is easier to read prose in a proportional font than in a monospace font. It’s been studied to death. > > However, not everything is prose, and there are special cases where prose should be in a monospace font regardless. > > One such place, which I hope gets fixed while all this attention is being given to the stock skins is to make the wiki composition textbox monospace, at least if you’ve chosen Markdown formatting. Formatting a Markdown table with proportional fonts is a minor nightmare. > > Here are some screenshots for those who haven’t already recognized the problem, perhaps by past experience with ASCII art wreckage in email or Usenet postings: > > http://imgur.com/zKtnLVA,xlAs1gS > > The first screenshot shows a table that is properly formatted in a monospace font when viewed in my browser’s choice of proportional font. The second shows my doomed attempt to fix this. > > Both render the same way because Fossil currently doesn’t care if the pipe characters are aligned. >
> Yes, I know, I can fix this in my skin CSS. In fact, I’m going to do that right now. For 99.9% of fossil users (myself included) "fix in css" means "never fix". Some things look better with characters aligned, some things are easier to work with characters aligned. Code: monospace, wiki editing: monospace, hex keys: monospace. I hope the fossil devs favor easy to edit vs. pretty in the default configuration when it comes to fonts. > What I’m proposing here is that the code that currently emits class=“wikiedit” be changed to something that reflects the document language, so that different CSS can be applied for the different cases. I propose class=“wikiedit markdown”. > > I’ve gone with a 2-class solution instead of something like class=“mdedit” for backwards compatibility with existing customized skin CSS. This works on all major browsers going back many years, and on IE going back to…wait for it…IE7, because IE6 is B-R-O-K-E-N. > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
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