I use SourceCodePro in all my programming IDEs (LiveCode, R, Matlab, Octave, ...). It is a very clean monospaced font, and comes in a wide variety of weights.
> On Sep 21, 2016, at 3:33 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:31:29 -0700 > From: "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <revolut...@jaedworks.com> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Subject: Random topic: What script font do you like/use? > Message-ID: <p0621022bd4078da705cf@[192.168.0.8]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > I've used Andale Mono by preference, but I don't have the bold, and > so on versions of LC after 5.x, bolding for comments and keywords > doesn't show up in the script editor. (Bah.) > > I liked it because it was: > 1) clean-looking with a good x-height > 2) has easily distinguishable lowercase l, capital I, and number 1, > and zero and O > > I thought about just buying the bold, but I've been experimenting > with other fonts. I tried Verdana for a while-it's not monospaced, > but fairly wide and very clean-looking-but it turns out that I prefer > monospaced fonts better for reading code. Maybe just because I'm so > used to them that non-monospaced fonts look weird in that context. > Source Code Pro is appealing. > > ----- > > So... > > What fonts do you like best for code? > Or does everybody just fall back on Courier? ;-) -- The trouble with quotes on the internet is that sometimes they are attributed to the wrong people. -- Benjamin Franklin Dr. John R. Vokey Chair Department of Psychology _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
