It doesn't say much for Microsoft that this bug has been around since 2010. Reverts to old default font on lists
It seems that the default font setting that was used when a text box was created is retained on each line, instead of a setting a flag for 'this text box uses the default font'. Therefore, when the default font changes, the default font for each line remains, EVEN IF YOU CHANGE THE FONT FOR THE ENTIRE LINE OR TEXT BOX!
The work-around is to cut the entire text box (ctrl-A twice) and paste the text only into a new box. The drawback is you lose you hyperlinks and some of your formatting.
You only need to do the work-around for text boxes that you will be adding lines to. Otherwise you can just select the text and change the font.
If you try to copy one line of text from the original text box, and paste it into a new page, the original default font is retained when you enter, EVEN IF YOU HAD MANUALLY CHANGED THAT LINES FONT.
I read a comment by the developers on why OneNote is better than Evernote. I'm sorry to say, that this is one place where Evernote beats OneNote in spades. Simply change the default font in Evernote, and ALL YOUR NOTES that use the default font will be changed, even If you've got thousands of notes.
However, if you know the object model of OneNote, perhaps you could write some VBA code to either 1) change the default font of each text box 2) copy all your notes to text boxes with the default font and change them accordingly. Still, it shouldn't be this difficult!
UPDATE: Ctrl-Shift-N will remove all formatting on a line and set to the default font! Hyperlinks are retained. Unlike paste-special-text bullet/number lists are removed.
Haha, just as I was reading your post ââ I have the same experience, as does many OneNote users who know both an Asian and a Latin language ââ I was thinking 'hmm, there will soon be a Microsoft guy asking you to reinstall OneNote or submit a product request'.
And then I saw Rafael Com's reply.
Thus my amusement. I am already too tired after using Microsoft products for many years. In the past, I would even try to email the programmers, or call their âsupport centerâ only to find people who, frankly, are like Rafael Com below. Those who donât even bother to reproduce the problem and just ask you to do something that, I think, they know will not solve the problem.
It is sad.
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But there's another thing that is sad.
Your problem has been raised in UserVoice as well: https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327165-onenote-for-mac/suggestions/9408861-default-font-asian-language
But then as you can see, there're only around 20 votes as I am writing.
It is because multilingual users like us are in the minority. The majority of Microsoft programmers â and frankly its users ââ are Western educated and do not speak a non-Latin language. That explains why our concerns never get heard, although we do pay for their service (I am subscribed to Office 365).
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It is this arrogance that really upsets me.
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Commentscommented Mar 31, 2016
added this to the Future milestone Mar 31, 2016changed the title
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Although I think the ultimate solution to this would be allowing users to select any font installed on their computer, starting from basic font configuration might be a good idea. Currently CJK characters looks awful in Simplenote.
Here is how it looks like when I have default font size:
And here is how it looks like when I manually set it bigger:
Basically the only acceptable font rendering is the menu text. ASCII characters are still good, though.
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commented Jun 23, 2016
Monospace or alternative font options requested by a user in #2711658-t
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commented Aug 2, 2016
For me, the lack of a mono-spaced or non-proportional font such as Courier New, or Consolas on all Simplenote supported platforms is a deal breaker, it's a requirement. I have many notes with column aligned table data, which without the right font, simply does not line up.
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commented Aug 25, 2016
Requested by a customer in #2792368-t
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commented Dec 12, 2016
Really want a mono-space option ?
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referenced this issue Jan 18, 2017
Closedcustom font #488
referenced this issue Feb 20, 2017
ClosedFont choice #521
commented May 24, 2017â¢
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I hope you do something for Korean users.
All Korean letters are displayed as squares. Those are the notes I created on other platforms.(Android or Windows)
It's snap installed Simplenote 1.0.8 on (K)Ubuntu 17.04.
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commented May 24, 2017
I would expect that to be because the hard-coded font doesn't have Korean glyphs. So yes, this bug would fix that, as would implementing some sort of fallback mechanism (e.g. a set of fonts in CSS).
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commented May 25, 2017â¢
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@nemonein@gerv We don't use any custom fonts, and we only use system fonts. It should fallback to a font on your computer with the correct glyphs in your language.
MemoryThe blue line shows what percent of your physical memory is in use while the green line shows how many hard page faults per second are occurring.It's unlikely you'll find the blue line all of the way to the top of the graph since Windows will proactively move data from memory to the hard drive to keep some free RAM available (this is called paging). Computer update taking too long.
See our font-stack here: https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-electron/blob/master/scss/variables.scss#L30
I would open this as a separate issue. @nemonein do you mind opening a separate issue please?
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commented May 25, 2017â¢
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@drw158 Thanks for your replay.
I would open a new issue, but I want to make sure something. I'm not a programmer, so I can't read the codes well.
I just saw the codes you linked, but I'm not sure exactly what font is used for Ubuntu flavours.
Is it sans? or Ubuntu?
If it's Ubuntu, it does not have Korean glyphs.
If it's sans, it is normally matched to Ubuntu fonts in Ubuntu, which results in the same consequences(No Korean fonts).
I don't think Simplenote uses 'sans' because I manually matched 'sans' with Korean font.
NanumBarunGothic is Korean font, which also has Latin characters.
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commented May 25, 2017
@nemonein Sure, no problem.
Simplenote will try to load the fonts in a sequence from left to right. For example, it will try to find the first font, '-apple-system', and if it doesn't find it, it will look for the next font in the list, 'BlinkMacSystemFont'. Since your computer has the 'Ubuntu' font, it loads that one.
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commented May 25, 2017
But does electron do font substitution if a glyph isn't found, like a browser does? If not, then this could be a problem, because the first font found will be used, and if it doesn't have the right glyphs, you are outta luck.
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commented May 25, 2017
Let's create a new issue and discuss further.
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referenced this issue May 26, 2017
ClosedLinux: Non-Latin Characters do not display correctly. (installed via Snap) #561
commented May 26, 2017
@drw158@gerv I opened a new issue. #561
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commented Jun 23, 2017
Monospace font would be very nice. My usecase: using as decorators/headlines like I do in my code editor ?
Source code pro would be awesome / is open source.
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commented Jul 5, 2017
As a workaround, especially for CJK users, edit Simplenoteresourcesappdistapp.js. Search the font style string (-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', 'Roboto', 'Oxygen-Sans', 'Ubuntu', 'Cantarell', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;), and add or replace with your custom font name, for example 'Microsoft YaHei' .
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commented Oct 5, 2017â¢
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Would suggest the following open source options for Monospace:
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode (ligatures!!)
http://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/
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commented Oct 20, 2017
Lack of monospace font option is pretty much the only thing preventing me from abandoning Evernote and going with Simplenote instead.
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commented Nov 22, 2017
Please add a monospace font option. This is definitely a dealbreaker and keeps me using https://laverna.cc/ even though I prefer other features of Simplenote.
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commented Nov 29, 2017
I started to use Simplenote today and I like it a lot so far. I just found that I can create monospaced inline and multiline blocks with markdown, but having all monospaced text in the editor would be even more awesome.
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commented Jan 5, 2018
I would like to join the chorus of voices requesting a mono-spaced option. I, too, would like to migrate my notes from Evernote to Simplenote, but I can't have any 'smart-quotes' messing up my terminal commands!!! Thanks, in advance, if you implement this. [Using MacOS X.]
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commented Jan 5, 2018
Big fan of Font Bureau's Input Mono
Not sure what the license + payment situation would be for inclusion in an app, though
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referenced this issue Jan 10, 2018
ClosedAdd Monospace Font Support to the Editor #688
commented Feb 26, 2018
Yes please, am very much looking forward to a monospaced option.
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commented Mar 29, 2018
Also, requested by a customer in 1042810-zen
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commented Jun 26, 2018
YES! please add a monospace option!
I'm using simplenote as a calendar. For every month I display the output of unix
cal command. This only works properly with a monospaced font.
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commented Jul 13, 2018
Up. I see this issue has been added as an future feature over two years ago. Monospaced fonts are not something to be taken lightly. Monospaced is a matter of mental health.
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referenced this issue Jul 26, 2018
OpenEditor: Simplenote doesn't display correct fonts for CJK languages, for example Japanese #788
commented Aug 18, 2018
I'm using nvalt on macOS but my ASCII diagrams don't render on my phone :/
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commented Sep 26, 2018
Still waiting I guess
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referenced this issue Oct 19, 2018
ClosedUser Requests Easier Editing - Feature Request #758
commented Nov 20, 2018
Adding another request from a user here 1576555-zen
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referenced this issue Nov 27, 2018
OpenZoom in only impacts notes, not sidebar sizing, which is a major usability issue for large and high DPI monitors #1037
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Just an update to @silmerusse's suggestion for 2019â¦
The assets for the desktop app are now packaged with asar (a
tar alternative written in JavaScript). But you can still extract the source files, modify the app's CSS styles, and repackage them with a little bit of effort. For a Linux distribution using the Simplenote .deb package, for example:
The
-i option to sed is non-standard, so on a Mac, you will probably need a space between the -i and the .bak parts.
This is a very blunt approach that replaces all UI fonts with a monospace family, but if you're up for it, you could theoretically target
.note-detail-textarea separately from .note-detail-markdown in the same CSS file.
These steps, unfortunately, will need to be repeated after every Simplenote update.
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commented Jan 22, 2019
+1 for monospace editor code.
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commented Mar 9, 2019
Requested as well in 1857067-zen
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commented Mar 11, 2019
Another request on 1867947-zen
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commented Mar 31, 2019
Another +1 for supporting monospaced fonts please, would immediately switch from Evernote to Simplenote as soon as this is possible!
What are the steps required to do so, in case some intrepid soul wants to take a shot at this?
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commented Apr 10, 2019
Please add this feature!
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commented Apr 17, 2019
Received another request on 1966461-zen.
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commented May 3, 2019â¢
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Evernote Change Font Size
+ 1 for monospace. I saw the comments from an old post that it would add monospace support soon, don't know why it didn't implement it till now.
btw, thanks @ernstki for the work around, it works fine for me
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commented May 19, 2019
2041156-zen
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commented May 19, 2019
+1 for monospace!
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commented Jun 29, 2019
+1 for custom font option (or styling in general)
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