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Helge Blischke  
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 More options Nov 1 2012, 8:05 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
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From: Helge Blischke <h.blisc...@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:05:37 +0100
Local: Thurs, Nov 1 2012 8:05 am
Subject: Re: Good monospace font

Andre Majorel wrote:
> Can you recommend a fixed-width PostScript font with dotted or
> slashed zeros and good Unicode coverage ? Courier is what I'm
> trying to get away from. Inconsolata
> (http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html) is pretty good
> but latin-only. And ISO 8859-15 at that, which complicates
> things because all the source docs I have that are not UTF-8 are
> ISO 8859-1.

> Needs to be released under a fairly liberal licence ; I may have
> to bundle it with a GPL'd program.

> Thanks in advance.

Try the fonts of the Monospace family (originally by Bitstream) but
delivered for free with CUPS (up to and including 1.5.x). It has dotted
zeros.

Helge


 
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