What are the best fonts for numeric data entry? [closed] - user-interface

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I'm creating a GUI application that requires the user to provide lots of numeric data. What is the best font to display the user's data? I assume that a mono-spaced font would be better in this case, as multiple lines will have the same number of characters.

My favorite is Consolas

I'd probably go sans serif monospace.
What other fonts are you using for the rest of the application? If the answer is "Arial", "Arial Monospace" is probably the matching font for the numbers.

courier/courier new also looks better.

anything monospace will be fine.

Agreed on monospace but let the USER choose which one and the size - you have to set one by default

I'm a fan of Lucida Console or PT Mono.

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I am trying to convert a pdf to text, and als extract the color information of the text.
I am trying to do this in golang, but using a command line tool I call from golang is absolutely acceptable.
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I have generated a word document (docx) on fly, which contains 2 languages: English and Hindi.
English characters are displayed correctly but Hindi characters are displayed as box [] when you open the document. However when you select the hindi text (box) and re select the font from drop down to Aerial the characters displays.
Well the full document already has Aerial font but for some reason it doesn't display hindi characters when you open it.
I have tried to google for the it but I didn't found any instruction which may solve this issue. Please can anyone advise what is going on here.
It looks like that there is no way to do it. Alternatively, I have changed the font to "Mangal" and it works fine.
Thanks all!
Even I had same issue but it looks like MS WORD has got the solution.
in MS WORD 2007
step 1 - Go to 'Review'
Step 2 - Click on 'Set Language'
Step 3- Select check box 'Detect Language automatically'
Close word file and reopen it :)
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I am new to Textmate 2. I have seen few people using textmate with a reduced opacity of the background color. I am trying to find a way to achieve that, but could not get to anything closer.
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Ruby libraries to find "location" of items on laid out web page? [closed]

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I'm looking for a library, or a strategy, that can be used, ideally in conjunction with Ruby/Nokogiri, to determine the layout location of items on a web page, when viewed in the browser.
For example, in the current page I'm looking at, there is a "Ask Question" button in the top right corner (I am guessing in the header). If, for example, I wanted to see where the all the words "question" are on the page, which would match this word, and other places hat have the word question, in terms of XY coordinates or pixels, how would I do that?
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Looking for a VB6 grid that's a bit more than FlexGrid [closed]

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Really all I need is 2 columns. The first column will have some text and the second column needs to have a combo box in it which will allow users to pick from it.
Bonus if the control is free.
Have you checked out the S-Grid from VBAccelerator?
Got a good performance comparison too - article.
Isn't this what datagrid provides in VB6?
We use the VSFlexGrid, IIRC written by the people who wrote the MSFlexGrid which ships with Visual Studio but with more features, including in-cell combos.
On another project I wrote code to 'fake it' using a hidden combo and the free MSFlexGrid: in the grid's _Click event, move and size the combo to fit the cell (taking account of scroll bars if necessary), set the ZOrder (bring to front), make Visible and SetFocus.
Janus Grid (http://www.janusys.com/janus/library/HTMLFiles/GridEX2000/GridEX2000.htm), supports this, but it is not free
Component One makes an all-powerful grid that we used all over the place. It's a great tool and we are very satisfied with it.
Easy to use; extremely well thought out.
Good help and documentation.
It just works; we have not had any problems.
The properties and methods make sense and do exactly what they're supposed to.
http://www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/VSFlexGridPro/
Here are some screen caps of the grid in our application:
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Here's a free grid that is implemented as a single-file control with no dependencies. it is reasonably light weight and easy to implement.
LynxGrid
Know one more good 3rd-party grid control like FlexGrid. It's not free, but enough cheap and is still supported. It's iGrid from 10tec: http://10tec.com/activex-grid/
By the way, it's 1st version was based on vbAccelerator SGrid, but now it goes its own way ;)

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