in reply to revise font?

I agree with the previous posts. I don't think the specific fonts used are Perlmonks' concern. They are the concern of the user of a particular browser on a particular system. Furthermore, even if the folks who decide these things decided to choose a font, which font would they use? How would they know all the Monastery's users have that font? How would they know user A's FooBar font and user B's FooBar font are the same? There's no way to do this reliably, because of the very nature of the Web.

What I would like to see, though, is a removal of the <font size="-1"> wrapped around <code> tags. I think that's stepping on the user's concerns just as much as your suggestion is.

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Re^2: revise font?
by jhourcle (Prior) on Jun 30, 2005 at 19:50 UTC

    I'd agree with the removal of size='-1'. That's basically telling the browser that you'd like the font to be one size smaller than what the user prefers.

    Most browsers (at least, those that display in a GUI) specifically have an option for defining two default fonts -- that of 'normal' text, and that of 'fixed-width' text (which gets shown for <tt><pre> and the like.)

    I'd suggest that anyone who views code in a web browser set their fixed width font to whatever they use in their text editor for coding, or command line terminal, or however else they're used to interacting with code.

    I personally prefer ProFont (although, I like the classic, to the updated version. There's also Sheldon (available from the ProFont page), Anonymous, and I'm guessing plenty of other fonts with a similar purpose.

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Re^2: revise font?
by Tanktalus (Canon) on Jun 30, 2005 at 20:03 UTC

    Go into your User Settings and look in the code listing section, and check the "Large Code Font" box. Then the font size will be restored to "normal".

    Hope that helps.

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      I have a custom style sheet that fixes that, among other things. I just think the size="-1" should be taken out of the default styling. It was mostly an idle thought though; I wouldn't have even mentioned it except in context.

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Re^2: revise font?
by ww (Archbishop) on Jun 30, 2005 at 19:52 UTC
    I suspect the <font-size="-1"> represents an attempt to minimize the number of continuation lines. If so, it may have been -- in the days of 800x600 displays -- a reasonable design choice. However, it would be more amenable to user-override if rewritten with css.

    And generally, to those who feel that control of the rendering is a "user right upon which PM should not intrude," so to speak, I see no way that specing a more readable font in any way restricts that right. The intent and, ISTM, the effect would be to assist those whose knowledge does NOT include "how to create a local style."

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