Posted by Sally Thompson on 09/19/06 16:20

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:50:28 +0100, patrick j wrote
(in article <0001HW.C1350B7400AEB44CB019F94F@News.Individual.Net>):

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

I do so agree with you. This is the one thing I find less user-friendly with
Hogwasher compared with my old Windows newsreader, which was Forte Agent. If
I really really want to see some ASCII art then I change my prefs to a fixed
width font, then change them back afterwards - because I really don't find
messages as easy to read in such a font. At the moment I use Lucida Grande,
which I really like.



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