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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Categorisation of fonts Post 302464284 by DGPickett on Tuesday 19th of October 2010 04:29:13 PM
Old 10-19-2010
It'd be nice if they were clearly labeled for fixed pitch, at least!

I have been on a Verdana kick since an IEEE article said they measured it as the best performing, of many tried, for getting teams to fulfill tasks with substantial printed communications. However, back to Courier New for fixed pitch, a UNIX text tool specialty.

I wonder how many support glyphs outside the Unicode set?
 

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TERM(7) 						 Miscellaneous Information Manual						   TERM(7)

NAME
terminals- conventional names DESCRIPTION
These names are used by certain commands and are maintained as part of the shell environment (see sh(1),environ(5)). 1620 DIABLO 1620 (and others using HyType II) 1620-12 same, in 12-pitch mode 300 DASI/DTC/GSI 300 (and others using HyType I) 300-12 same, in 12-pitch mode 300s DASI/DTC 300/S 300s-12 same, in 12-pitch mode 33 TELETYPE(R) Model 33 37 TELETYPE Model 37 40-2 TELETYPE Model 40/2 43 TELETYPE Model 43 450 DASI 450 (same as Diablo 1620) 450-12 same, in 12-pitch mode 450-12-8 same, in 12-pitch, 8 lines/inch mode 735 Texas Instruments TI735 (and TI725) 745 Texas Instruments TI745 dumb terminals with no special features hp Hewlett-Packard HP264? series terminals 4014 Tektronix 4014 tn1200 General Electric TermiNet 1200 tn300 General Electric TermiNet 300 vt05 Digital Equipment Corp. VT05 Commands whose behavior may depend on the terminal accept arguments of the form -Tterm, where term is one of the names given above. If no such argument is present, a command may consult the shell environment for the terminal type. SEE ALSO
stty(1), tabs(1), plot(1), sh(1), environ(5) troff(1) for nroff BUGS
The programs that ought to adhere to this nomenclature do so only fitfully. TERM(7)
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