[lug] Fixed-width fonts for email?

Robert George Mayer mayer at acm.org
Fri Dec 5 09:40:05 MST 2008


On Thursday 04 December 2008, Jeffrey Haemer wrote:
> Do you still use fixed-width fonts to read email?
>
> I occasionally get email that contains ASCII graphics.  That won't work as
> intended in my typical mail client (Gmail).   My early email clients (mail,
> Mail, mailx, ...) were fixed-width, but those haven't been my primary
> clients for years.
>
> The Dan Rather/CBS News forgeries suggest that even by 2004, most
> non-technical people were unaware that fixed-width fonts had ever existed.
> We geeks, however, still use them daily for programming.
>
> So, how about it?  Does your default mail reader still format the box,
> below, as a box, with nice, lined-up edges and corners?  Just curious.
>
> +----------------+
>
> | THIS IS A BOX. |
>
> +----------------+
>
> (And yes, I know I *could* make Gmail use fixed-width fonts.)

 ________________________________________
/ I use KMail - it can be configured for \
\ fixed-width fonts.                     /
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        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

( Without fixed-wdith fonts, essential )
( programs such as cowsay and cowthink )
( would be useless.                    )
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        o   ^__^
         o  (xx)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
             U  ||----w |
                ||     ||

- BOB

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