font-family: "Monospace" (!)
Andreas Prilop
> While hunting around for better monospaced fonts, I had found
> http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/fonts/Monospace/index.html
>
> This offers a truetype font containing font family called
> "Monospace"(sic) in styles "Roman", "Oblique", and "Bold".
>
> When I downloaded this font, I found, unfortunately, that MSIE refused
> to select it in its default font dialogs (and, by the way, the "putty"
> terminal emulator also refused to recognise it as a fixed-spaced font
> in _its_ selection dialogs). The MS font-properties extension showed
> indeed that it was lacking any details of its unicode/charset
> coverage, nor did there seem to be any indication of it being a
> fixed-width font.
The author of the fonts should provide this information in the font files.
Perhaps he doesn't know how to do this. Both kind of information
(charsets / monospaced) is stored in the 'OS/2' table of TT fonts.
<http://www.eu.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/cscp.htm>
<http://www.eu.microsoft.com/typography/specs/>
<http://www.eu.microsoft.com/typography/tt/ttf_spec/ttch02.doc>
If his font-creating software doesn't allow editing of the 'OS/2'
table, he might use third-party tools:
<http://developer.apple.com/fonts/Tools/>
<http://www.truetex.com/ttf_edit.htm>
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