[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Revisiting Read Activity default font

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:

> Hi James (resending to the list).
>
> El día 26 de abril de 2012 20:45, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>
> escribió:
> > Manuel,
> >
> > I just changed the font for Read Etexts to monospace.  Read Etexts is for
> > the "plain text" files distributed by Project Gutenberg.  Most of these
> > titles look just fine in the Sans font I was using before, but some with
> > family trees, tables and other ASCII art really need a monospaced font.
>  Now
> > that the core Read Activity can also read PLain Text files you might
> want to
> > default to monospace for that kind of file.
>
> Interesting, so monospace may be a nice default for simple text in Read.
>
>
Or we can add a "Monospace" button to change the font in the text files if
needed.
I don't think Monospace is the best option in general,
but I don't know how many books include ascii art or tables.

Gonzalo
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