Can anyone who works with both Windows and Mac please recommend a reliable mono-spaced font which is standard on both platforms?
I’m working with my Windows-using collaborator on a text with linguistic examples with glosses. For the Mac, I usually use Menlo, but I don’t know if that is installed by Windows.
I’m willing to find and install fonts, so if there is a good mono-spaced fonts that comes automatically with Windows, I can try to find a Mac version. I am not wanting to get my collaborator to install fonts on her machine, as I’m not sure how well versed she is in the OS to do that, and as she’s not at home in China, she’s away from her usual support system.
Any advice and suggestions will be much appreciated.
Mark
Which Windows version?
Not a complete list, just off the top of my head:
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Thanks for getting back to me.
I don’t know what version of Windows she has, and also whether she has Andale Mono. I have that and like it… in fact I think I’ve moved over to it for some apps, as I was trying various ones out for myself the other day. But I’m asking.
What she has sent me has Courier Prime, which I don’t like and is slightly iffy for this purpose.
Mark
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Andale Mono doesn’t appear to be shipped with recent Windows versions. 
(It’s still available for download, but that’s the kind of hassle you tried to avoid.)
Courier Prime is less annoying than Courier New, so at least you don’t have to settle on this one. Probably the only safe bet on my short list.
Depressing.
She’s apparently on Windows 10, and no, she doesn’t have Andale Mono.
But even more depressing, it seems her whole paper including the examples has to be in Times New Roman! So tomorrow, given that it’s now nearly 11 p.m. here in the UK, I’ll help her to reset her whole Scrivener project to TNR, sort out the spacing on the glosses she’s already made individually and make sure she knows how to continue. She hasn’t got much longer till it’s due.
Mark
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Yeah, if there was any way to derail further, it had to be TNR. Of course.
Rather than fiddle with the text why not do it with Compile?
I use (need because of my dyslexia) Gill Sans while typing my texts but then use Compile with the publishers preferred choice of font(s). I don’t need to mess up my writing process and the publisher gets what they want. For her glosses you might need to set up some styles and have Compile present them in the appropriate font.
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Thanks. Up to now, on all the projects we have collaborated on, thart is precisely how we’ve done it, but I have done the final compiling. As she is normally in China and I’m in the UK—she’s somewhere else now!—I have no idea whether she compiles her own projects, but I suspect she just copies all the text when it’s written and pastes it into Word and formats it there. I know that is what’s going to happen in this instance,
If we can get together sometime, I’ll try to get her up to speed with compiling.
In the current instance, since time is short, the best I can do is to help her get it all into TNR and maybe help with lining up the glosses.
Mark