Talk:Consolas

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Article neutrality comment

The discussion about how "Consolas" is not "aligned" without cleartype seems to be a very biased opinion, especially considering that the reference is an opinion piece itself. I feel it should be either removed or revised to be more neutral.

Thx1200 01:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Makes sense to me... I've removed the comment. If we can find expert commentary from a font specialist who discusses this issue with Consolas, then we can re-add it with proper attribution. -/- Warren 05:47, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Consolas "bug"

I've removed the section on the Consolas 'bug' recently added by User:Winsteps. For one thing, it's Original research. More importantly, though, it's not a bug, it's a design choice. A number of well-respected monospace fonts render the example the same way Consolas does -- for example, Courier! Just because you can pick two fonts (Courier New and Lucida Console) that happen to render a particular glyph the same way, and construct some ASCII art that looks correct when rendered in that way; that doesn't mean that any other way of rendering the glyph is a bug.

Another example: a hyphen in Consolas is the same width as the alphanumeric characters. Courier New and Lucida Console, on the other hand, render a hyphen shorter than the alphanumeric characters; so I could construct a piece of ASCII art, similar to Winsteps one but using hypens, in which Consolas would look correct and Courier New & Lucida Console look misaligned. Does that mean that there is a bug in Lucida Console and Courier new? No, of course not. -- -- simxp (talk) 15:19, 26 November 2007 (UTC)