Font for text areas

[Stephen Fitzpatrick]

Is it necessary to force <textarea>s to use a fixed width font?  
Surely we could use <pre> or <tt> if we want fixed width?

Further, the fixed width font used for textareas seems to be either  
larger than or different from that used for <pre>: I set the defaults  
FixedPitchFont and FixedPitchRTFFont to Courier so that <b> and <i>  
would be visible in pre-formatted text, and increased the font size  
to 12 as I find Courier harder to read than Ohlfs. Now textareas that  
I thought were a reasonable size occupy half the screen (they're only  
70 columns wide - I figured a minimum 80 column display a reasonable  
assumption - but are more than half the width of a MegaPixel  
display).

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