On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 01:45:42AM +0100, Andre Kl?rner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 05:04:38PM -0600, Jim Graham wrote: > > Two questions about variable width fonts, then.... > > > > First, how does Mutt do with variable width fonts? I gather that it does > > handle them, but how? My version (1.5.21, according to "mutt -v") > > Well, as mutt is a CLI application it doesn't care about what font is in > use anyway as this is the task of the tool that displays the output. > > So in most cases I have seen the terminal that renders the fonts is putting > each character in a cell, so you get no benefit from using a variable width > font, despite that it looks ugly in most cases. So I have come to the > conclusion that a perfect monospaced font like Terminus provides the best > UI that one can achieve.
Ok, but if variable width is such a good thing, using the twisted logic that's been posted in this thread, every possible environment either supports it or it's crap...right? So it should even be supported by Mutt on a VT-100 terminal. Right? Oh, wait, the old VT-100 terminals do suck. Never mind. But you still haven't answered the other part: how does the MUA or terminal keep plain test that is meant by the sender to be aligned as he/she typed it? That was a part of the question that needs an answer, as it MUST be handled properly or it's broken. So how IS that done? Later, --jim -- THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | "This 'telephone' has too many spooky1...@gmail.com | shortcomings to be seriously considered < Running Mac OS X Lion > | as a means of communication. The device ICBM / Hurricane: | is inherently of no value to us." 30.44406N 86.59909W | (Western Union internal memo, 1876) Android Apps Listing at http://www.jstrack.org/barcodes.html
