Happy New Year - Looking for ways to improve LQ.

jeremy · 01-11-2011, 09:30 AM

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--jeremy

jeremy · 01-11-2011, 09:37 AM

Thanks again for the feedback all. The following members have been upgraded to contributing member status:

gmartin
JZL240I-U
portamenteff
MrCode
Snark1994
djsmiley2k

--jeremy

MTK358 · 01-11-2011, 09:44 AM

I really want a fixed-width tag so that we can easily write commands or pieces of code within sentences without using workarounds like quotation marks, bold, or setting the font to Courier. It would be nice if it would use the browser's default fixed width font (like code tags do already). Maybe it should even have a highlighted background so it's easier to see the beginning and end of the code.

jeremy · 01-11-2011, 09:50 AM

I wouldn't consider setting the font to Courier a workaround, but rather a proper solution.

--jeremy

JZL240I-U · 01-11-2011, 09:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

Thanks again for the feedback all. The following members have been upgraded to contributing member status:

gmartin
JZL240I-U
portamenteff
MrCode
Snark1994
djsmiley2k

--jeremy

Great

. Thanks, Jeremy.

MTK358 · 01-11-2011, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

I wouldn't consider setting the font to Courier a workaround, but rather a proper solution.

If that's so, it seems like code tags should look like this:

this is some code

instead of like this:

Code:

this is some code

jeremy · 01-11-2011, 11:05 AM

Your original request was:

Quote:

I really want a fixed-width tag so that we can easily write commands or pieces of code within sentences...

We currently offer this, and I posted an example in my previous post. The code tag has different functionality than what you requested, as is intended.

--jeremy

archtoad6 · 01-12-2011, 07:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

I wouldn't consider setting the font to Courier a workaround, but rather a proper solution.

Except that is doesn't work, not on my computer not in my regular browser (Konqueror 3.5.9), nor in my alternate browser (Opera 11.00). Until I quoted your post, it wasn't even obvious that you were trying to demo using Courier.

Wikimedia provides typewriter tags: <tt>this is typewriter</tt>, & TWiki provides monospace: =this is monospace=. We're asking that LQ provide something similar that is not browser dependent.

brianL · 01-12-2011, 08:29 AM

Trying it. Setting the font to Courier New. Although I would prefer DejaVu Sans Mono, or Consolas.

MTK358 · 01-12-2011, 08:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brianL

Although I would prefer DejaVu Sans Mono, or Consolas.

Exactly.

archtoad6 · 01-12-2011, 08:37 AM

brianL,

It still does not work. -- Your Courier New shows up as the normal san serif font in my browser.

If you doubt my ancient eyesight, I could post a sreen shot.

jeremy · 01-12-2011, 08:37 AM

You can actually use whatever font you'd like.

--jeremy

jeremy · 01-12-2011, 08:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by archtoad6

It still does not work. -- Your Courier New shows up as the normal san serif font in my browser.

You either don't have the font installed, have a browser plugin that explicitly doesn't allow fonts or your browser is badly broken.

--jeremy

MTK358 · 01-12-2011, 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

You can actually use whatever font you'd like.

--jeremy

But it probably won't show up as monospaced on systems without that certain font installed.

brianL · 01-12-2011, 08:53 AM

I've got both those fonts I mentioned installed in Slackware, but they don't show up in LQ's Advanced editor font options.