<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 13 Oct 2018, at 17:02, Gary L. Gray <<a href="mailto:glgray@me.com" class="">glgray@me.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Speaking of fonts, if you use Menlo, then you should check out Meslo, which is a customized version Menlo that increases the line spacing. It also has a version with a dotted zero instead of zero with a diagonal line. It is my go-to font for everything code related and for email.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font" class="">https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I forgot: if you're interested in such subtle font aspects, then you might check also Lucida Console DK, which is part of TUG's Lucida OpenType package <<a href="http://tug.org/store/lucida/opentype.html" class="">http://tug.org/store/lucida/opentype.html</a>>.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is a customized version of Lucida Grande Mono DK specially designed for console apps. To that effect, it has shorter capitals.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The zero is not dotted nor slashed. "Slashed Zero" is available as a typographic extra, but when I select it in Apple's font picker it doesn't appear in TeXShop.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, the O and Q letters have the super-elliptic design championed by Don Knuth (hence the DK in the font name)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb34-2/tb107bigelow-zero.pdf" class="">http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb34-2/tb107bigelow-zero.pdf</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb35-3/tb111knut-zero.pdf" class="">http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb35-3/tb111knut-zero.pdf</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb36-3/tb114bigelow.pdf" class="">http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb36-3/tb114bigelow.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">so they are easily distinguished from the 0 digit. See also</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://tug.org/store/lucida/opentype-dk.html" class="">http://tug.org/store/lucida/opentype-dk.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Attached are screnshots of the same text in Menlo</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="1FFD8CCD-6809-4D05-9CF3-C5D65E5CBE5C" width="651" height="106" src="cid:C153A72A-3D89-4093-9AEE-07FD65DE9CA9@home" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and Lucida Console DK</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="6B44EC04-D604-4386-A9CA-A6F38820F5E5" width="648" height="109" src="cid:75B8B771-92C9-4E19-A44F-4BFC749B9E1D@home" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You really need a trained eye to see the differences.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bruno<br class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>