From: Dennis S. <dm...@so...> - 2004-02-20 19:46:15
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Randall R Schulz wrote: >Chris, > >On Friday 20 February 2004 08:22, Chris Petersen wrote: > > >>>I'm looking for optimal fonts (in general, but specifically for use >>>in jEdit). I've already found that the font anti-aliasing is not to >>>my taste, at least for my 1280x1024, 17" trinitron monitor >>> >>> >>I've also found that to be true. It seems that horizontal lines >>(tops/bottoms of some letters, underscores) anti-alias "brighter" >>than other sections of letters, leaving a very unbalanced look. I >>assumed this is a problem with some swing/java component that jEdit >>had no control of, so I never reported it as a bug. >> >> > >Yes, poor uniformity is one symptom of the anti-aliasing, possibly in >combination with missing or poor hinting. > I use Luxi Mono with jEdit on both notebook and desktop Linux systems, with excellent results. I'm using Mandrake distributions for both, and also have Windows fonts installed, but I believe Luxi Mono is a standard XFree 86 font. I've got the size set to allow 81 column editing on the notebook with plugins on the left in a maximized jEdit (1024 screen width), with a larger plugin area and non-maximized jEdit on the desktop system. - Dennis |