While using personal css would be one way to deal with the legibility of some elements of the Monastery, TWWTM (They Who Work The Magic © 2005) may find this a suggestion worthy of implementing in the (presumed) site css.
Background: In response to a SOPW ( Capitalize First Letter of Each Word ), a monk posted:
s/(?<=\w)(.)/\l$1/g for @a;prompting this:
Re^2: Regular Expression by suaveant
Heh... these fonts are bad. When I first read this I saw slash-one dollar-one, and was trying to figure out what the heck you were smoking. Then realized \l was slash-ell... characters aren't exaclty the same but that are really close to it. :)
- Ant
Humbly, oh devs, gods, and fellow monks: I endorse the implicit recommendation in suaveant's observation: It would indeed be nice to cause PM to default to a typeface that facilitates distinguishing an ell from a one; a curly brace from a paren, and so on. Even a stylesheet that merely specs 'sans-serif' might help (though it raises other potential sources of confusion). A slightly more ambitious changes might spec a common console font, per the $ENV info provided by the visitor's browser.
(update, 1 July) ... or using one of the other mechanisms below. or, of course, not, if the notion that this is 'big brother-ish prevails... (</update>
In reply to revise font? by ww
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