Re: mandoc(1)'s man pages, groffed, and Project KIC (was: Milestone reached: hyperlinked mdoc(7) documents in PDF)

[Dave Kemper]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 1:28 PM Lennart Jablonka <humm@ljabl.com> wrote:
> replace Courier by a non-fixed-width type face, because we really don’t
> need to emulate the nonsense typewriters do in print.

True if it were emulating only typewriters, but fixed-width fonts are
still very common in terminal emulators.  So a font that emulates that
aspect of characters to be typed at the terminal is a helpful cue to
readers.  (Not a defense of Courier itself, but of monospace fonts in
certain contexts.)