{ "attachments": [], "comments_archived": true, "date": "2003-06-25T21:30:10.000Z", "layout": "post", "title": "Why is my Monaco Borken?", "wordpress_id": 430, "wordpress_slug": "font-borken", "wordpress_url": "http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=430", "year": "2003", "month": "06", "day": "25", "isDir": true, "slug": "font-borken", "type": "entry", "postName": "2003-06-25-font-borken", "html": "

Okay, what's wrong with this picture?

\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n

Each of those lines is from a terminal I have open, trying to find\none of my monospace fonts that works correctly and I don't hate. My\npast favorite has been Monaco for the longest time, but recently (when,\nI can't quite remember) it seems that it likes to combine \"l\" and \"/\"\ninto one symbol. So does Courier.

\n

On the other hand, I have this font\ncalled Monaco CY which looks close enough to my favorite Monaco, until I \ndiscover that it mashes double dashes together.

\n

This leaves me with only two monospace fonts on my ?PowerBook that don't\nmangle things (however minor) in the terminal. They are Courier New and\nAndale Mono, both of which I very much dislike.

\n

So, though I've found one other person \ncomplain a bit about this, I can't seem to find any explanations why. Best\nI can figure is that I had to dump a slew of fonts onto my system recently\nin order to be able to do some client work, so maybe I clobbered an out-of-box\nversion of my previously favored Monaco. But that doesn't make much sense, since\nI tried snagging a copy of Monaco from my girlfriend's iBook to no avail.

\n

Anyone out there have a clue as to what this is?

\n\n\n\n

shortname=font_borken

\n

Archived Comments

\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n", "body": "Okay, what's wrong with this picture?\r\n

\r\n
\r\n

\r\nEach of those lines is from a terminal I have open, trying to find\r\none of my monospace fonts that works correctly and I don't hate. My\r\npast favorite has been Monaco for the longest time, but recently (when,\r\nI can't quite remember) it seems that it likes to combine \"l\" and \"/\"\r\ninto one symbol. So does Courier. \r\n

\r\nOn the other hand, I have this font\r\ncalled Monaco CY which looks close enough to my favorite Monaco, until I \r\ndiscover that it mashes double dashes together.\r\n

\r\nThis leaves me with only two monospace fonts on my ?PowerBook that don't\r\nmangle things (however minor) in the terminal. They are Courier New and\r\nAndale Mono, both of which I very much dislike.\r\n

\r\nSo, though I've found one other person \r\ncomplain a bit about this, I can't seem to find any explanations why. Best\r\nI can figure is that I had to dump a slew of fonts onto my system recently\r\nin order to be able to do some client work, so maybe I clobbered an out-of-box\r\nversion of my previously favored Monaco. But that doesn't make much sense, since\r\nI tried snagging a copy of Monaco from my girlfriend's iBook to no avail.\r\n

\r\nAnyone out there have a clue as to what this is?\r\n\r\nshortname=font_borken\r\n\r\n
\r\n

Archived Comments

\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n
\r\n ", "parentPath": "./content/posts/archives/2003/2003-06-25-font-borken", "path": "2003/06/25/font-borken", "thumbnail": "http://www.decafbad.com/blog-images/font-issues.gif", "summary": "Okay, what's wrong with this picture?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEach of those lines is from a terminal I have open, trying to find\none of my monospace fonts that works correctly and I don't hate. My\npast favorite has been Monaco for the longest time, but recently (when,\nI can't quite remember) it seems that it likes to combine \"l\" and \"/\"\ninto one symbol. So does Courier. \nOn the other hand, I have this font\ncalled Monaco CY which looks close enough to my favorite Monaco, until I \ndiscover that it mashes double dashes together.\nThis leaves me with only two monospace fonts on my ?PowerBook that don't\nmangle things (however minor) in the terminal. They are Courier New and\nAndale Mono, both of which I very much dislike.\nSo, though I've found one other person \ncomplain a bit about this, I can't seem to find any explanations why. Best\nI can figure is that I had to dump a slew of fonts onto my system recently\nin order to be able to do some client work, so maybe I clobbered an out-of-box\nversion of my previously favored Monaco. But that doesn't make much sense, since\nI tried snagging a copy of Monaco from my girlfriend's iBook to no avail.\nAnyone out there have a clue as to what this is?", "needsBuild": true, "prevPostPath": "2003/06/25/sync-not-my-bookmarks", "prevPostTitle": "Sync My Bookmarks No Longer!", "nextPostPath": "2003/06/25/guids-in-rss-rock", "nextPostTitle": "GUIDs in RSS rock" }