poor-man's bold in monospace

[pkra]

The highlighting class specifies "Incosolata","Consolata","Monaco",monospace as font-family.

However, Monaco does not have a bold variant, so poor-man's bold is used which makes the spacing not mono-spaced.

See also mathjax/MathJax-docs#32 (comment)

[snide]

Do you have a code font you'd suggest to replace monaco? I really don't know what is most common on people's computers these days.

[pkra]

I'm not a font expert, I'm afraid. But http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/font-stacks/ and http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/22/complete-guide-to-css-font-stacks/ provide some suggestions.

Since the problem was reported on OSX, maybe Andale Mono might fit? (I'm a bit confused as Wikipedia says Andale Mono does provide a bold typeface but the OSX-font-list only mentions a regular typeface). Or maybe loading Inconsolata as a web font? There's always Courier, I suppose.

[pkra]

Awesome! Thanks, @snide!

[ihnorton]

FWIW, on macOS 10.12 (tested both Chrome 63 and Firefox 57), the comma in the Andale font looks unfortunately like a slightly-stout period:

(from: https://xtensor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/numpy.html)