[Haskell-cafe] Finding the contents of haskell platform?

Alexander Solla ajs at 2piix.com
Sat Nov 6 14:01:42 EDT 2010


On Nov 6, 2010, at 3:56 AM, Stephen Tetley wrote:

> Modern browsers might add in arrow from a different font if it is not
> present in the one chosen by the web page author - I suspect this is
> happening on this page where the arrow "looks wrong" typographically:

I don't think that's what's going on.  Notice that the font used in  
that page is fixed width.  The arrow looks wrong because it has to fit  
in a fixed width space.  Fixed width arrows all look stubby, even if  
they are styled like the rest of the font.

Very few programming fonts have arrows or other symbols.  When I  
played around with UnicodeSyntax, I tried lots of different fonts.   
The only one I found that is halfway readable is GNU Unifont (at  
unifoundry.com)


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