On 30 May 2006, at 14:47, Philip Regan wrote:

Actually, Terminal does use the Monaco that's in the font folder. I
found this out the hard way when I cleaned out my font folders, and
accidentally took Monaco out. Terminal defaulted to "null, 0 pt" and
was rendered useless. Took me ages to figure that one out...

Ah, okay, that's a bit of a surprise, and as you say, can render Terminal useless.

OS X is a little different, but certainly under OS 9, Monaco, Courier, Geneva and Chicago were essential, otherwise various parts of the system and applications could fall over. In general of course it's also a good idea to leave the relevant system font alone too: Chicago for early OSes, Charcoal, and Lucida Grande for X. It's wise to have a least one monospaced font for stuff to default to.


Tony Spencer
St Rémy de Provence (13) France

http://tonyspencer.blogspot.com/


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