Mike Ellis wrote:
> I went and did that, as well as installing the other monospace unicode
> fonts Lucida Sans Unicode and one just called "monospace".
and
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> >However, what you should really do is go get and
> >install a good monospace Unicode font;
Lucida Sans Unicode is *not* a monospace font.
Read this too: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/
Try FreeMono:
<< Free Monospaced – 2560 glyphs in version 1.6
Ranges: Basic Latin; Latin-1 Supplement; Latin Extended-A; Latin Extended-B;
IPA Extensions; Spacing Modifier Letters; Combining Diacritical Marks; Greek;
Cyrillic; Armenian; Hebrew; Runic; Latin Extended Additional; Greek Extended;
General Punctuation; Superscripts and Subscripts; Currency Symbols; Letterlike
Symbols; Number Forms; Arrows; Mathematical Operators; Miscellaneous Technical;
Box Drawing; Block Elements; Geometric Shapes; Miscellaneous Symbols;
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A; Braille Patterns; Alphabetic Presentation
Forms
OpenType layout tables: Hebrew, Latin
Family: Monospace
Styles: Medium, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique
Availability: Free download from Free UCS Outline Fonts
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freefont/ >>
> Didn't do me
> much good though: I can get them in "web page font" but they still won't
> show up in "plain text font".
How do you install a font to the system? Wrong installation (e.g. by mere
copying to the Font folder) or use of different font managers (I use Font
Navigator, and sometimes it gives strange effects at the browser) may fail
helping.
> >Which version of MS IE are you using?
> 6.0
>
> >Which are the three fonts available to you for "Plain Text" Latin text?
> Andale Mono, Courier New, and Lucida Console.
>
> >What version of Windows are you running?
> 98se.
Monospace fonts ("plain text") are evil as concerns MSIE :(
> The annoying thing about this is that there's got to be someone on this
> list who's using MS IE and sees their unicode plain text just fine.
I've got Win98 and MSIE5. At home I prefer using Opera6 instead of MSIE6. It's
great! And I read mail not with a mail client (MSOE), not with a browser.
Outlook Express is a bit more flexible as concerns fonts.
-- Yitzik