[lazarus] OT : Fixed fonts

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:17:07 +0300
marius popa <mapopa at reea.net> wrote:

> I think fixed fonts are better for the lazarus editor 
> It looks better now . (or maybe is the gnome2 fonts)
> For beginners they should have the first contact 
> with lazarus fixed is better 
> Just an opinion ...

Normally this is already the case.
The synedit tries to load a fpFixed font named "courier" with size 12. The gtk-interface has a heuristic to search a font with this pattern. Normally this results in 
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
The 'm' stands for monospaced and so this font is treated as fixed Pitched.
But the gtk-interface font support is not complete. It does not yet support 2 byte character sets, which most monospaced/cellspaced fonts are. Therefore you can only use a small portion of your installed fixed sized fonts.
Everyone is invited to implement double/multi byte character sets.


> PS : great work guys with the editor
> ..i was sick and tired 
> to edit the *.pp with vim and mc 
> Now can jump from implementation to declaration faster :)
> and i have bookmarks too 

:)


> lazarus  look like a real ide now !! 

At least the source editor under linux.


Mattias