RE: need a font similar to Courier to use for code

Subject: RE: need a font similar to Courier to use for code
From: "David Berg" <dberg -at- dmpnet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:42:04 -0500



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Haas, Guy
>
> I am
> documenting case-sensitive programming languages, and am faced
> with the issue of capital I and lowercase L looking identical
> in sans serif fonts.
>
> If I use a sans serif for code samples, they look alike.

Take a look at the characters in Trebuchet MS font. Trebuchet doesn't
exactly look like a code-type font, but it does a reasonable job of
distinguishing between the lower case L and the 1(one).

David Berg


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