fixed fonts

[Victor Irzak]

Is there any way to create a new font that will have same features as
Helvetica, except that it will be fixed???

Thanks

Victor

[Iain B. Findleton]

Victor Irzak <ips...@rogerswave.ca> wrote in message
news:38F5F2BD...@rogerswave.ca...

I guess the only logical answer to this question, as it is asked, is no!

What you might mean, however, is something like "Is it possible to create a
fixed font that has the appearance of Helvetica?". That you can probably do
with a font editor program, or, if you are really enthusiastic with the
idea, any old paint program.

Under Windows there is a program called "FontEdit" that you can get from
Microsoft. Under UNIX, I can't say what you might use.

[Jochem Huhmann]

If you are looking for a clear looking fixed font under UNIX look for
lucidatypewriter. Helvetica as a fixed font would be near to unreadable,
because some characters are just thin vertical lines and this would make
large white holes in a running text.

Jochem

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[Alan L. Folsom, Jr.]

ips...@rogerswave.ca (Victor Irzak) wrote in
<38F5F2BD...@rogerswave.ca>:

>Is there any way to create a new font that will have same features as
>Helvetica, except that it will be fixed???
>
>Thanks
>
>Victor
>

Helvetica itself would not make a good fixed format font, as the characters
are differing widths and would look really funky if monospaced.

I spent some time looking for good monospaced fonts for editting. The best
resource I found (for windows fonts) is at:
http://home.bsu.edu/home/prn/monofont/index.html
which has nice examples and pointers to sources for many monospaced fonts.

Cheers
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