Re: Line ending symbols in TMerge

2008/5/13 Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>:
> Simon Large wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > TMerge currently uses large graphic symbols to indicate line ending
> > type. These are much thicker than the normal font, and IMHO are a bit
> > ugly. Would it be possible to use the similar symbols in the 'Symbol'
> > font, which is distributed as standard with Windows? It would then fit
> > in better with the text, and would scale with font size too.
> >
>
> Using a symbol font won't work reliably, because you must not assume that a
> specific font is installed on the OS, and even if the font is installed,
> they differ between OS versions.

http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html

'Symbol' should be standard on all versions of Windows.

> Also, I haven't found suitable glyphs in any of the symbol fonts I have
> installed on my machine here.

See screenshot from OpenOffice character selector. MS Word has a similar view.

CR = F0AC
LF = F0AF
CRLF = F0BF

> That's why I used icons. Feel free to draw up some better ones! I've
> repeatedly mentioned that I'm not good at drawing stuff, so if someone else
> wants to improve those, be my guest.
> They're located in
>
> http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn/trunk/src/Resources/LineEnding*.ico

OK. If the symbol font is still no good I will take a look.

Simon

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