Best font for programming

doublefailure · 12-20-2003, 03:33 PM

on second thoght, the helvetica font might come from adobe acrobat..

i'm not so sure..

ICO · 12-20-2003, 07:06 PM

Is it possible that you can provide a link that I can donwload it? Thank you.

hw-tph · 12-21-2003, 06:45 PM

ProFontWindows - nothing beats it. It provides extremely high readability, and it just plain looks good. Can't beat it. I use it in my aterms and Eterms too.

http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/index.html

TTF versions (NOT recommended!) as well as Linux/Unix pcm format, MacOS, etc are available.

Håkan

ICO · 12-22-2003, 06:03 AM

hw-tph!
Great! It is a very great font. I tried both and I found true type one is not good, but the other one looks very nice.

Thank you.

ICO · 12-22-2003, 06:06 AM

I found it only looks good when it is 9pt. And it is pretty small though.

ICO · 12-22-2003, 08:06 PM

hw-tph, I can use profont in windows fine. However, in my RedHat 9, after install the font, I don't have option to pick this font in gedit. Can you tell me how to make the font usable? Thanks

int0x80 · 12-22-2003, 10:22 PM

Courier or Courier New

hw-tph · 12-23-2003, 03:47 AM

ICO - You're right, I can't use it in Gedit either. I have both the TTF font and the pcm font installed on my laptop running Debian (and Garnome Gnome 2.5.1 for Gnome) and neither shows up. It seems I can't use it in any GTK2 application for whatever the reason. I'll look that up.

Håkan