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Drylar
Wanderer
Joined: 04 Nov 2001
Posts: 53
Location: USA
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 Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 6:28 am
POLL:What Courier Alternatives Exist?
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Does anyone know of alternatives to Courier? I'm looking to round up a good list of fonts that match the following four requirements:
1)Not a True/Opentype
2)Fixed Width
3)Correctly Display Formatting
4)Obtainable
Hopefully we can all chip in and create a good list of alternatives to the Windows standard fonts, which provide little more than the old Courier. Please provide the font name and a means by which the masses may aquire it. Share and share alike I always say. Down with courier's domain! Lets beautify our screens!
-Drylar |
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tics
Newbie
Joined: 04 Nov 2000
Posts: 8
Location: USA
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Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 7:24 pm
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As far as I know you can pick any font that you want as long as it is advailable within your system. Just look in view/fonts.
Tics Imp of Chaotica.org.uk port 4000 |
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Castaway
GURU
Joined: 10 Oct 2000
Posts: 793
Location: Swindon, England
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 10:47 am
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Helps if you can read ;)
He said: Fixed width.. most fonts on the system are NOT fixed width, and thus unsuitable for mudding.
Lady C. *uses whatever the default is*
Though I do wonder sometimes, what it would look like with one of those 'handwriting' fonts ;) |
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seamer
Magician
Joined: 26 Feb 2001
Posts: 358
Location: Australia
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 3:19 pm
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As each day passes, all the fonts i come across are more suited to displaying on webpages...big, bold, dynamic...boring
what would be nice is if we could create rules where specific text has its own font...tells in courier, gossips in gilligans island font, fights in verdana...oo... :)
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Lalaynya
Wanderer
Joined: 23 Aug 2002
Posts: 96
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 4:27 pm
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As each day passes, all the fonts i come across are more suited to displaying on webpages...big, bold, dynamic...boring
what would be nice is if we could create rules where specific text has its own font...tells in courier, gossips in gilligans island font, fights in verdana...oo... :)
Why oh WHY did I have pass door on...
It's called MXP! |
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seamer
Magician
Joined: 26 Feb 2001
Posts: 358
Location: Australia
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Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 12:47 am
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i dont want mxp, i made the mistake of showing people on madrom how it works and ended up disabling it because i was getting notes with 400pt font
Why oh WHY did I have pass door on... |
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Tigger
Novice
Joined: 07 Oct 2002
Posts: 46
Location: USA
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Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 1:52 am
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can you send MXP messages so that others can see them (I thought it was only my comp that saw it)
OK all the MXP doesn't work...and only other zmud users can see it
is MXP a part of zmud or part of the mud itself? |
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seamer
Magician
Joined: 26 Feb 2001
Posts: 358
Location: Australia
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Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 2:56 am
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people can send messages with basic html tags as <font> and <bold>
mxp is useless for me because i dislike breaking off to use the mouse for something i can type 10x faster :P
Why oh WHY did I have pass door on... |
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Castaway
GURU
Joined: 10 Oct 2000
Posts: 793
Location: Swindon, England
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Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 11:17 am
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Depends how you look at it:
MXP can be part of the mud, as the mud itself can use MXP to tell the client things, like "the next line is the room name" and "the next line is the room description" which helps the client to find these things..
MYP is also part of the client, as the client interprets any MXP messages it gets (when MXP is turned on) and just shows the result to the user.
All this means that if you have MXP turned on in zMUD, anyone on the mud kann send you text (using tell, say or whatever) that contains MXP/HTML tags, and zMUD will interpret them.. So, as Drylar said, if someone uses a font tag and sets the size to 400pt, then thats what you will see..
(Hmm, maybe it would be good if we could choose just to interpret the 'secure' tags and leave the rest as tags?
Lady C. |
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Daagar
Magician
Joined: 25 Oct 2000
Posts: 461
Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 4:06 am
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Back to the topic... I've never found a suitable font replacement. I've always used fixedsys, all others have been too thin or spaced funny. |
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seamer
Magician
Joined: 26 Feb 2001
Posts: 358
Location: Australia
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Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 4:36 am
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the cleanest fixed width i can use on zmud (besides default) is lucida
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Charbal
GURU
Joined: 15 Jun 2001
Posts: 654
Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 7:23 am
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(Hmm, maybe it would be good if we could choose just to interpret the 'secure' tags and leave the rest as tags?
This is already possible. Click Prefs, expand MXP, Elements, select the System tab and uncheck any tags you don't want parsed.
- Charbal |
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