On Jan 27, 1:11 pm, Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Saluton Thomas :)
>
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:45:36 -0800 (PST), Thomas Allen dixit:
>
> > Thanks for pointing that out (I hadn't thought much of it, but that
> > makes since, especially since I wrote a little plugin on vim.org that
> > has my real name with it). I would use Deja Vu or Monaco on Windows,
> > but they render terribly.
>
> That has happened to me in the past, whenever I've used Windows (seldom,
> I must say). I don't know why, and I haven't asked myself why, but
> *some* fonts render terribly on Windows. It probably has to do with
> hinting: maybe Windows rely on manual hinting and fonts without hinting
> information render badly :?
>
> Anyway, I'm writing this in my xfce4-terminal using Monaco and I must
> confess that the font looks great. I can use it at 11 points instead of
> the 12 points I usually need when using Deja Vu Sans. So far my only
> complaint is the lowercase "t": the cross bar is a bit low and the
> letter looks a bit weird, like if the letter didn't belong to the font,
> and the parentheses are way too round to my likings. Nothing terrible,
> anyway. Any other character I've tried looks really great. I find the
> font a bit more comfortable to the eyes for editing emails or code. For
> the desktop I prefer Deja Vu Sans: I've tried Monaco and looks weird.
>
> Thanks for recommending the font, Thomas :))) Oops, those smileys look
> VERY "smiley" with the semicircly parentheses of Monaco! XD
>
> Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado
> --
> Linux Registered User 88736 |http://www.dervishd.net
> It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen!
> We are waiting for 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 +0000 ...
Haha good to hear. I use Monaco at 10pt with anti-aliasing off on my
Mac. I like to see a lot of code at once. Plus my laptop screen is
13" :^)

Thomas
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