about choosing a font for the editor

[daredare]

when i choose a font for the text editor the Arial font does not appear in the selection box, i have this font installed in my system and it might be the most comon font so i wonder why it is not listed in my WB fonts editor?

[Cary]

Arial is a proportional font.

[chrisjlocke]

... and the editor only supports non-proportional fonts.
You can force it to use a proportional font, but it doesn't like it, and goes all wonky.

[daredare]

ok thank you.

[davenz]

I had the same issue because I dislike most of the fixed-witdth fonts. This was almost a deal breaker for me until someone recommended Consolas, a quite nice fixed-witdh font that is designed for this type of environment and is great to look at and work with all day.

It is available for download here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

Hope this makes things better for you.

Dave.

[daredare]

thank you.i might give it a try.

[Karlis]

Here is more info and links to more font resources:

http://kb.blumentals.net/kb/index.php?V ... EntryID=73

[Boofo]

Consolas is a great font. I use it in all my editors.

[MikeyB]

I spent a long time trying different fonts, not only for WeBuilder but also for use with the other code editors we use here.

Consolas was one I tried, but just didn't work for me!
I finally settled on a font called Raize Font.
http://www.raize.com/DevTools/Tools/RzFont.asp

[davenz]

Yep, thats a nice font too but I prefer Consolas at the end of the day; I just couldn't get used to Raize.

[chrisjlocke]

The Raize font looks a little too squished for me. The Consolas isn't that clear on my screen either (the lowercase y appears quite blurred). Think I'll stick with ol' faithful Courier!

[syrupcore]

The Raize font looks a little too squished for me. The Consolas isn't that clear on my screen either (the lowercase y appears quite blurred). Think I'll stick with ol' faithful Courier!

geek cred +10.

[syrupcore]

two more...

http://www.webdevkungfu.com/textmate-en ... r-windows/
http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html

[mwb1100]

Another font worth checking out is Damien Guard's Envy Code R:

http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy ... t-released

[Karlis]

Hm... should we set up a font-library for the editor. this might be useful... I could snatch some of the freely available fonts and put them under our download section. What do you think?