[SciPy-Dev] mono space text in document editor.

Vincent Davis vincent at vincentdavis.net
Fri Jun 11 13:19:54 EDT 2010


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
> Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:07:59 -0600, Vincent Davis wrote:
> [clip]
>> On this page for example.
>> http://docs.scipy.org/scipy/docs/scipy.constants.codata.precision/edit/
>> When you edit the text it is not monospace and there is no 75 char
>> guide. This makes both staying within the 75 char limit and getting the
>> rst syntax correct difficult. (for example putting "-" under a word to
>> get bold font.) I could use an external editor and copy paste. See
>> attached images for you don't know what I mean.
>
> That's specific to the browser you are using, and possibly also user-
> specific customizations -- is it Safari on OSX?

Chrome on osx, I'll try the other browsers
Vincent

>
> Anyway, there's nothing in the CSS forcing <textarea> to monospaced font.
> I believed all browsers had that as a default, but apparently some do not.
>
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> Pauli Virtanen
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