Only single-width characters, like on a mechanical type-writer were possible.

That day used text mode only - so there were no normal fonts anyway. It was totally ok since anyway computer software It is true that many e-documents especially before 00’s contained

So just to the possible readers, a short tale about fonts: Yes, I know :-) But I am not sure if the OP knows yet those things. The reason for the advice to use a fixed-pitch font is so that columns of text line up. Well, none of those 3 are fixed-pitch (monospaced) fonts, which goes against the grain of the advice given above. Your best bet will be Microsoft fonts like Arial, Times new Roman, Segoe UI If this (or ANY posting on the Notepad++ Community site) is useful, don’t reply with a “thanks”, simply up-vote ( click the ^ in the ^ 0 v area on the right said: Here are some picked off of conversations in other threads: I use the Consolas font which makes it easy to distinguish between 1 and l :īut there are other good font choices as well. Perhaps the simplest way to set up a new font is to go to the Settings (menu), select Style Configurator…, choose Language = Global Styles, choose Style = Global override, tick the box for Enable global font and then choose a new font in the Font name dropdown. This contrasts with proportional or variable-width fonts, where the letters and spacings have different widths. A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. You want what is known as a fixed-pitch font. What font are you using, anyway? Are you sure it is the default? (See below for how to check the setting) But why play a guessing game? As strongly hinted your best course of action is to choose a different font. Notepad v7.5.1’s default font is “Courier New” which may not be the greatest, but for the characters being discussed they are fairly distinguishable:Įven if I zoom in on what you are seeing I don’t see any difference in any of your characters–well…maybe…hmm.

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