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Re: Good monospace font

From Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: Good monospace font
Followup-To comp.lang.postscript
Date 2012-11-01 13:05 +0100
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Andre Majorel wrote:

> Can you recommend a fixed-width PostScript font with dotted or
> slashed zeros and good Unicode coverage ? Courier is what I'm
> trying to get away from. Inconsolata
> (http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html) is pretty good
> but latin-only. And ISO 8859-15 at that, which complicates
> things because all the source docs I have that are not UTF-8 are
> ISO 8859-1.
> 
> Needs to be released under a fairly liberal licence ; I may have
> to bundle it with a GPL'd program.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 

Try the fonts of the Monospace family (originally by Bitstream) but 
delivered for free with CUPS (up to and including 1.5.x). It has dotted 
zeros.

Helge

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Good monospace font Andre Majorel <cheney@halliburton.com> - 2012-11-01 11:31 +0000
  Re: Good monospace font Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-11-01 13:05 +0100
    Re: Good monospace font Andre Majorel <cheney@halliburton.com> - 2012-11-01 13:26 +0000
  Re: Good monospace font James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> - 2012-11-01 15:45 -0400

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