Similarly, many engineers use Jira to document:
- Timing diagrams
- Message sequence diagrams
- Routing traces
- Log analysis
- Performance comparisons
- Debugging notes
- ASCII diagrams
To preserve alignment, the only practical option today is often to use a code block. However, code blocks are intended for source code and provide much less formatting flexibility than normal text.
What I would like is the ability to choose a font family for selected text or paragraphs, similar to how document editors such as Microsoft Word allow users to select the most appropriate font for their content.
For example, it would be helpful if Jira supported options such as:
- Default font
- Consolas
- Courier New
- Lucida Console
- Other common monospace fonts
This would allow users to create aligned technical content while still benefiting from standard rich-text features such as:
- Text colors
- Bold and italic formatting
- Hyperlinks
- Lists
- Other editor capabilities
I suspect many engineers are currently using code blocks primarily as a way to obtain a monospace font rather than because the content is actually source code.
Has this capability been considered before? If not, would Atlassian consider adding font-family selection—or at least a "Monospace Text" style—to Jira comments and descriptions?
I'd be interested to hear whether other users have encountered the same limitation and how they handle technical diagrams or aligned text in Jira today.
