Simon Large wrote:
> 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.
Windows has one too: just run 'charmap.exe' :)
> CR = F0AC
> LF = F0AF
> CRLF = F0BF
Those *could* be used, yes. But they're way uglier than my icons. Also,
they look like chars which is not good: I want them to be clearly
distinguishable from chars and symbols. That's also why I made them
grey, not black.
Stefan
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Received on 2008-05-13 18:49:01 CEST