Re: Programmer font

2011-06-05 Thread James Mills
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Operating systems where programmers get to make decisions generally > don't have this problem :-) Using GNOME on Debian, the default Monospace > font has underscores which show as distinct characters separated by a > small gap. On my desktop at

Re: Programmer font

2011-06-05 Thread Ben Finney
Den writes: > As we all know, python uses underlines and double underlines as > significant characters. But fonts, including programmers' fonts, > generally design underlines to run together. Operating systems where programmers get to make decisions generally don't have this problem :-) Using

Programmer font

2011-06-05 Thread Den
As we all know, python uses underlines and double underlines as significant characters. But fonts, including programmers' fonts, generally design underlines to run together. This makes it hard to identify single from double, or double from triple underlines (at least for me). I have modified th