From: Chris P. <li...@fo...> - 2004-02-20 20:02:14
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> Yes, poor uniformity is one symptom of the anti-aliasing, possibly in > combination with missing or poor hinting. Yup. It makes the anti-aliasing feature a big pain to use. I like the way that MOST of the letters look with it enabled, but enough of them are messed up that it hurts to look at after awhile. > "Monospace" is a virtual font name--assigned in the "properties.font" > file to a specific font or fonts on the local system. I gather that > file is constructd during installation, but I'm not really sure about > that. Yeah, that's what I figured. Judging from the look (and lack of most of my fonts in the jEdit font picker), mine is mapped to Lucida Sans Typewriter. > I got ProFont and tried it, but it doesn't do so well as a TrueType > font. I don't know if it's hinted well (or at all). No clue. I guess I only ever accessed the bitmapped portions of it on my mac - since it was running at 9pt in terminal and BBEdit windows, and nowhere else. -- Chris Petersen Programmer / Web Designer Silicon Mechanics: http://www.siliconmechanics.com/ Blade Servers: http://www.siliconmechanics.com/c292/blade-server.php 1U Servers: http://www.siliconmechanics.com/c272/1u-server.php |