On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
Even in GTK, it's still six fonts (five typefaces). And
that's not counting bold, italics, and underline, which can be specified independently for each of the fonts.
Yes, they *can* but all GTK fonts except font.small and font.text are the same size and the same family, the only other difference being sans or serif.
There is a big difference between sans and serif. They are very definitely not the same font. Even if you take out font.small and font.text, GTK still uses four fonts in the out-of-the-box configuration of SciTE. And then there are bold and italic as well, which typographically speaking, are yet more fonts.
So I was just making the point in reply to Matthew's suggestion of putting font on all settings that it can be done, but even when it is available it is little used and I doubt it is worth the effort to implement.
I fully understand what your point was. I am saying that all these font settings in SciTE are *not* "little used". If you open C++ code and Python code (perhaps the most widely used languages by SciTE users, including its creator) in a clean release of SciTE, you will see there is a wild profusion of styles, sizes, and colors. It's an utter mess, and it is not at all an example of "but all those settings are not used". Because they *are* used. They are used way the hell too much, in fact.
[1] limited check only, I am after all more interested in Geany than Scite :)
Yet you seem to persist in arguing with me about SciTE, which is what I use for virtually all my coding.
John