Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/19/06 02:33

patrick j wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:47:11 +0100, dorayme wrote
> (in article
> <doraymeRidThis-FCAE38.09471119092006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>):
>
>> You do understand that all this is so I can see the little cute
>> markers that JL so often kindly illustrates his posts with. I
>> will be giving up a really plain and unobtrusive, perfectly
>> shaded, perfectly-on-screen-readable Geneva for him. I hope he
>> damn well appreciates it. :-)

That's cuz I'm an R-tist!
>
> Yes I'm sure he does appreciate it :)
>
> One rather excellent thing about MacSOUP newsreader which I used to use
> before I started using Hogwasher was that with MacSOUP you had an
> "alternative font" option which meant that by a simple key combination
> (I think it was command-U) you could change the font from something
> nice like, say Geneva, to something not as nice but fixed-width like
> Courier or Monaco.
>

How about a sans-serif font that is also monospace like "Monospace 821
BT Roman"? Or "Prestige 12 Pitch BT Roman" which is bolder than Courier?


> This means of course that when you see an "ASCII" graphic in a posting
> you would just change to the fixed-width font.
>


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Take care,

Jonathan
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