Re: Monospaced font

Mike,

I added the Wiki link for future reference.

I think your needs are more complex than mine. As I'm seeing it, for my 
use of jEdit, I only need two fonts: DejaVu Sans Mono for nice text, 
with whatever else it gives me, and GNU Unifont as my 'Font 
substitution' font. It will take up most everything else.

http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html

GNU Unifont is basically a lower quality version of Windows 
'Monospaced'. I'd like better quality, but once I lock in, I have to 
assume that I'm totally locked in. That's why it's important for me to 
add some science to what I'm doing. Essentially, my research here has 
indicated that I can add whatever fonts I want to the JRE 'lib/fonts' 
folder.

Today, Chrome and Firefox are both working okay on the link you gave me. 
It was several years ago that I'm talking about. I would do searches 
about the problem. Some people would be saying things worked. Some would 
say it didn't work. Some would say Win32 wasn't. There was a lot of 
variation.

I'm paranoid about these things. Working can mean only that I'm getting 
lucky. With these things, it's important to get some education about it, 
to, again, add some science to it all. Science is the Oracle doc, and 
more science would be putting the same fonts in a Mac 'lib/fonts' 
folder, and seeing that it works.

My general rule is to never change defaults just to get things working 
for me, not when I'm trying to put stuff up on the web.

As an aside, I took a course called "The Structure of the English 
Language." The textbook was written by linguists. As a result, I adopted 
a linguist's view of language. It's all six of one, or a half dozen of 
the other. The economics of language: there's upsides and downsides to 
everything.

Regards,
GB

On 2/11/2018 5:53 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote:
> On 2/11/2018 3:45 PM, Gottfried Barrow wrote:
>> However, the most ridiculous difference that sometimes happens in 
>> Chrome and Firefox is when the 'leftward/rightward white triangles' 
>> have opposite directions in Firefox and Chrome. 
> Test left-pointing white triangle (the left-hand box is an image, i.e. 
> more or less guaranteed to be correct, the other boxes show how your 
> browser renders it):
> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25c1/browsertest.htm
>
> Test right-pointing white triangle:
> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25B7/browsertest.htm
>
> I get the correct display in Firefox.  If you don't, you might go into 
> Firefox's options and adjust the font it uses.  I do not have Chrome 
> installed (I dislike its "we know what you need better than you do" 
> attitude), so I don't know how it does on these two characters.
>
> BTW, you might find this page to be useful when picking fonts for 
> coverage of specific Unicode blocks:
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_font
> It certainly doesn't cover all fonts, just (some of) those that have 
> "wide" coverage.  Some other sites that cover this topic are listed 
> down at the bottom of this page (External links).


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