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

[Lennart Jablonka]

Quoth 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.)

Right.  We can emulate the nonsense typewriter /emulators/ do.  
I do think that we shouldn’t do that, either.