On Wed, Jan 01, 2025 at 03:37:34PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > brendan wrote: > > As far as fonts go, I use Hack (Debian package fonts-hack) for > > programming. > > Welp. There's a day I'll never get back! I can't believe you made me > look closely at the fonts I've been using. Sheesh. :-)
that sounds like fun Actually, today I've taken a break from working on mawk https://github.com/ThomasDickey/original-mawk/issues (mainly #72) to fix compiler warnings https://github.com/ThomasDickey?page=1&tab=repositories and work on test-coverage with lcov, like this: https://invisible-island.net/vttest/vttest.html#link_tools ...and in the previous break, I tested Ghostty - it needs some work: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#toc-_Ghostty > I'd been using Monospace Regular for a long time, but because I'd > chosen a Liberation font for something else on my desktop, I switched > to Liberation Mono for my terminals, thinking they'd all look nice > together. But after a few days, I decided something was wrong with > it (it turns out the font is squashed vertically for some reason), and > I remembered this mail thread, and went and installed the Hack font. > I agree -- it's a nice font. I also found Fira Mono -- that's nice > too. And while comparing, I realized that there were things that were > really ugly about my old familiar Monospace Regular. So I couldn't go > back. (The centerline of the hyphen and > and < symbols don't line > up, so C pointers look really dumb! The horror!! :-) > > But both Hack and Fira also made some odd choices for a couple of > characters each. The Hack percent sign (%) is horrible looking, and > the 0 digit has this weird dark ellipse down the middle. OTOH, Fira > gets those right, but the @ sign is truly weird, the lowercase 'g' is > odd, and the "Regular" version is inexplicably wider than all the > others in the family. > > So I just spent a bunch of not-so-quality time with fontforge, > indulging what might be my mild OCD. :-) I fixed the 0 and the % to > my satisfaction, and for now, I'm a happy camper. > > So thank you. I think! > > paul > "Ooh! Maybe I should adjust the tail on that comma!" > > =---------------------- > paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 42.7 degrees) > > > -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net
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