Monospaced

The file format was a problem for us from the get-go: Amazon's Kindle file format doesn't provide support for tables or for so-called monospaced fonts, two formatting features that we use heavily in our line of technical books. ❋ Tim O'Reilly (2009)

This convention originated way back in the typewriter era, when all fonts were monospaced, meaning they took up the same amount of space on a page. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A non-proportional, or "monospaced", or "typewriter" font, is one where all of the letters take up exactly the same amount of space on screen: ❋ Jim Tinsley (N/A)

I'd frankly rather read a novel in for instance monospaced console text on a command-line DOS or *n*x system than suffer through the indistinct grayness of the current-generation Kindle and Sony Reader. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Saturday, March 08, 2008 jEdit macro: Toggling between proportional and monospaced fonts ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2008)

Using two spaces after a period is a holdover from when typewriters used monospaced type. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Jon Aquino's Mental Garden: jEdit macro: Toggling between proportional and monospaced fonts ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2008)

Remember to view this file in Courier, or some other monospaced # ❋ Unknown (2009)

BTW, Inconsolata is a great monospaced font for Firefox! ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2007)

Yesterday I mentioned the Consolas monospaced font from Microsoft (actually, some consider Inconsolata to be slightly better, and it doesn't require you to install Visual Studio). ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2007)

Here I describe the reasons why jEdit is almost certainly the best text editor in the world. jEdit's creator, Slava Pestov, is a genius – you can tell from the power and extensibility of his creation. jEdit lets you use both monospaced fonts and proportional fonts. ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2007)

The reasoning I've heard is that it's easier to estimate the space require to print the story with a monospaced font. ❋ David Steffen (2009)

I'm trying out some proportional fonts (as opposed to monospaced) for coding. ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2006)

For example, you might need a 9 pixel high font with monospaced cyphers to display numbers in tables at a high resolution. ❋ Unknown (2008)