>> If I was still doing COBOL, I'd argue for monospace...
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>Heh heh, last time I wrote any COBOL we were still using dumb terminals connected to a mainframe and nobody had ever heard of a "font". You got what the terminal gave you, period. I sure wouldn't want to go back to those days, but in a way, it was simpler then.

Actually, if I had to write Cobol today, I'd probably write a bunch of text generators in Fox :).

And that would include something like a FPD screen generator which would convert all those coordinates into proper VT-100 escape sequences. And I think I wouldn't be the first to do that - I know a guy who did.