[Cuis] Fixed-Width Font

[Phil (list)]

On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 10:20 -0400, Dan Norton wrote:
> On 9 Jul 2015 at 19:11, Casey Ransberger wrote:
> 
> > I want this too. What needs to be done is to make a StrikeFont,
> > IIRC. I didn't get a round toit. If anyone has an extra round toit
> > that I can borrow, I'd be very appreciative. 
> > 
> Thought I had one... must be around here somewhere... :(
> 
> > Anyway I think if you look around at the class StrikeFont, you'll
> > find a trailhead or rabbit hole that you can follow toward how to
> > #doIt.
> > 
> Browsing through strike fonts, I see no fixed widths. But, true type fonts have a few 
> fixed-width examples. There seems to be no way to install a .ttf in Cuis currently.
> 
> Can we port TrueType-Support from Squeak?
> 
> Should there be a sibling of StrikeFont, say TrueTypeFont, which inherits from AbstractFont?
> 
> Any hints or guidance would be most welcomed.

I'd like a fixed-width font as well but I suspect that this is one of
the areas it might be better to wait until Morphic 3 on (i.e. isn't the
existing font support based on bitmap fonts rather than vector?)

> 
> > Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
> > 
> > --C
> > 
> > > On Jul 8, 2015, at 5:03 PM, "Dan Norton" <dnorton at mindspring.com>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > For my PluggableListMorph, the model prepares list elements on a
> > "String new writeStream." 
> > > They are not static. I need for these list elements to be aligned
> > in columns like a small 
> > > spreadsheet. A fixed font would be handy - how can I install
> > one?
> > > 
> > > Any other approaches to get columns in a list?
> > > 
> > > - Dan
> > > 
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>  - Dan
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