Re: slashed zero in HTML code listings?

Subject: Re: slashed zero in HTML code listings?
From: Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com>
To: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:10:34 -0700


People won't install fonts for you just to get code in help files to
look like what you want. I can pretty much guarantee that.

You could use Consolas, which is in Vista and Office 2007 on windows
(and a free download). It has the slashed 0 glyph, and its a well
designed monospace font. Depending on the platform for your product
your users may already have it.

Laura

Robert Lauriston wrote:
> Nice option. I think I could just add the following to my .css files
> and recommend installing the font:
>
> code { font-family: Envy Code R, Courier New, Courier, monospace; }
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Lin Sims<ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>> There's a free TrueType font available called Envy Code R which is a
>> really nice monospaced font. It includes the slashed zero, and has
>> regular, bold, and italic (but no bold-italic) typefaces.
>>
>> It's really nice. :D
>>
>> I suppose you'd have to embed the font or something, since it's not
>> commonly available (as in, not well known or widely distributed).
>>
>> --
>> Lin Sims
>>
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