mcw@titan.rice.edu (Michael Wirth) (10/11/90)
What's the best (Adobe or other source) Type 1 PS font for source code listings, specifically LISP code? A "good looking" monospace font (an oxymoron?) would be best, but I could give up monospace for better legibility in small point sizes. Specific issues: 1. Courier is too light weight. 2. Other monospace fonts are also too light weight, especially in small point sizes, and are similarly "ugly" (Look at the even gray tone of a page of most reasonable fonts, and the "blotchy" uneven appearance of a page of Courier.) 3. Standard proportional width fonts, e.g., Helvetica, have too much variation in character widths. Look at a string of semicolons, ";;;;;;;;;;;;;;;" (a common comment delimiter in LISP). It looks like a Volvo test crash. So I don't need monospace, just "semi-monospace". Mike Wirth GeoQuest International, Inc. Houston
glenn@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com (Glenn P. Parker) (10/11/90)
In article <1990Oct10.195501.26157@rice.edu>, mcw@titan.rice.edu (Michael Wirth) writes: > What's the best (Adobe or other source) Type 1 PS font for source code > listings, specifically LISP code? You might consider "Letter Gothic 12 Pitch", from Bitstream. This is a very clean, sans serif, monospace font that I have used for C++ listings. There is also a monospaced Helvetica called "Monospace 821" from Bitstream, but I don't care for it, personally. If either of these is too light, there are bold versions (and italic, and bold-italic :-). Proclaimer: I work for Bitstream. -- Glenn P. Parker glenn@bitstream.com Bitstream, Inc. uunet!huxley!glenn 215 First Street BIX: parker Cambridge, MA 02142-1270