
I used to have the Andale Mono ttf font, but since I reinstalled windows and Office it has disappeared. Where did it come from ? Font has all distinguishable characters. N Wolcott nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu

As an answer to my own question and also thanks to Dave Fawthrop, Google informed me (after I couldn't find it on the MS site that Andale and Georgia are no longer supplied by MS. I now keep a copy of all my fonts somewhere else than Windows so I can retrieve them later. It turns out that Andale formerly Monotype mono in W3.1 was included in IE4 and IE5 but discontinued with IE6. I still have the old subscription freebies from AOL etc that had IE5 and IE4 on them. They have the fonts in CAB files. I managed to extract the "supplementary Fonts" from the IE5 setup disk using WINRAR, a shareware program which busts out cab files. Georgia was also there. Apparently around 2000 MS offered also unicode versions of the core fonts, I don't know if they are still available, called "Fonts 2000". The DP font is a little more distinctive and ugly for proofing purposes, but Andale does the trick too and looks better. Moral--never throw anything away! ----- Original Message ----- From: N Wolcott To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 4:33 PM Subject: [gutvol-d] Andale Mono font I used to have the Andale Mono ttf font, but since I reinstalled windows and Office it has disappeared. Where did it come from ? Font has all distinguishable characters. N Wolcott nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d

I don't know if they are still available, called "Fonts 2000". The DP font is a little more distinctive and ugly for proofing purposes, but Andale does the trick too and looks better.
Why not use one that is freely available, and patent-free? There are several great mono fonts available in the Freefont and Bitstream Vera collections. In fact, I used those exact two collections to create my "Plucker Anti-aliased fonts" package, which you can see in full splendor here: http://code.plkr.org/aa/ David A. Desrosiers desrod@gnu-designs.com http://gnu-designs.com

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:33:52 -0500, "N Wolcott" <nwolcott@dsdial.net> wrote: | I used to have the Andale Mono ttf font, but since I reinstalled windows and Office it has disappeared. Where did it come from ? Font has all distinguishable characters. | N Wolcott nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu I love Andale Mono, which came from M$. I still have a copy have emailed it to you. -- Dave F
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