ProFont is a
monospace font
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available in many formats. It is intended to be used for programming in
IDE environments and it is available in
bitmap
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and
TrueType
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versions for various
platforms.
Originally developed as
shareware
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by Andrew Welch
[http://www.info-mac.org/viewtopic.php?f=135&t=3569&p=3570&hilit=profont#p3570] for the
Apple Macintosh
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in TrueType format, ProFont was intended to have metrics identical with Apple's default
Monaco
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font—resulting in an 80-column by 25-line display in a
Compact Macintosh
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full screen window—but with additional features desirable for programming, such as a
slashed zero
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and easily distinguished
curly brackets. ProFont was bundled with the
BBEdit
BBEdit is a proprietary text editor made by Bare Bones Software, originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6, and currently supporting macOS.
History
The first version of BBEdit was created as a "bare bones" text editor to serve as a "p ...
text editor.
References
External links
ProFont for Windows, Mac, LinuxCyrillic ProFontProFont ("Orp") for X11/xterm as BDF/PCF
Monospaced typefaces
Computer-related introductions in 1986
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