Hello Marck,
Monday, September 25, 2000, 2:10:51 PM, you wrote:
MDP> Hi Gary,
MDP> On 25 September 2000 at 12:09:29 GMT -0400 (which was 17:09 where I
MDP> live) Gary Mort wrote and made these points on the subject
MDP> of "Fixed or variable width?":
GM>> ... Whats the big deal about proportional fonts? Are you referring
GM>> to sending email in HTML format?
MDP> This is about Fixed Width aka mono-spaced fonts (Courier, Fixed
MDP> Sys, Lucida Sans Typ, Andale Mono et al) and Variable width aka
MDP> proportional fonts (Arial, Times et al). Mono fonts means you get true
MDP> WYSIWYG in plain text.
Thanks to all for both on and offlist explanations. Now it
makes sense. Its for those 'fancy editor thingy' reasons that
you can't use it. For the record: I use a spellchecker
occassionally & try to set my client to automatically wrap text
at 70 charectors, and a little cut and pasting on occasion.
Thats about the extent of my editor wants. As such, right
justify, indent paragraph, WYSIWIG and such are just not
relevant. I understand others do need that capability though,
and can understand why I am being limited so that they can use
these functions now. :-)
MDP> WARNING: No holy font wars - I'm just informing here, okay?
Nope, no holy wars. Displaying text in Times New Roman does not
add one iota to my usability of a program. It just adds to my
enjoyment of reading the text. Which is not a factor in program
decisions to me.
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Using The Bat! 1.46c
under Windows NT
4.0 Build 1381
Service Pack 6, RC 1.5
Gary mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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