[Cuis] Fixed-Width Font

[Dan Norton]

On 10 Jul 2015 at 13:29, Phil (list) wrote:

> 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?)
>

Yes, the only font now is DejaVu and it's a bitmap font. I found some fixed bitmap fonts 
among the true types at:

http://www.lowing.org/fonts/

Adding a sublcass to AbstractFont to load one of these might be doable near-term until 
Morphic 3 comes along. Porting TrueType from Squeak has a lot of drag.

> > 
> > > 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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