RE: [BLACKBOX] Bold Font musings for the Blackbox Editor to bring smiles to withered faces...

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Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 14:39:06 +0000

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Hi Lon,

>Anyone know of a font out there that _bolds_ without widening characters?
>In multiple sizes?

To be honest: no, I don't know of any.
But: proper aligning your text is better done with tabs and TextRulers than with spaces.

PS: I would love to see a Ruler, which scales with font size, but I've never found the time to write a wrapper for a Ruler, which could do that.

--
  Bernhard
>-----Original Message-----
>From: BlackBox [mailto:BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy>Williamson
>Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 4:31 PM
>To: BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy>Subject: [BLACKBOX] Bold Font musings for the Blackbox Editor to bring smiles
>to withered faces...
>
>Ok ok ok ok....
>
>So in the Blackbox Component Pascal backwash of development systems
>for Windows (and.. is there a better place to be?) we have a nasty
>situation.
>
>The "proper way" is to put some things in BOLD.  Every font I've
>looked at out there stretches bold letters, and therefore shifts all
>yer code out of register if you are used to
>doing your text editing aligning things in columns so your eye scans
>them naturally.
>
>Anyone know of a font out there that _bolds_ without widening characters?
>In multiple sizes?
>Freebie?
>Works in windows?
>
>My gut tells me this is possible, but I do NOT wanna fire up a font
>editor and waste N days doing something that someone must have done
>before.
>
>Thanks in advance,  Halftrack
>
>
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