On 5/15/04 1:03 AM, the following spewed forth from John Siracusa's keyboard:
> Ah, my old nemesis: > > http://arstechnica.com/reviews/02q3/macosx-10.2/macosx-10.2-13.html#terminal I've been using Entourage since embarrassingly early versions of Emailer [like a lot of the listers here], and I must say, I'm with Scott and John on this one. I *really* like Monaco 9, and while I haven't upgraded to '04 yet, it looks like this really is a problem. I'm glad John pointed out his articles. I *knew* someone had complained about OSX's goofy rendering of Monaco in Terminal. For me, the biggest problem is the letter spacing [not the anti-aliasing]. Most of use Monaco because it's a consistent, ubiquitous monospaced font. Whether the fault lies in WASTE, TextEdit, or ATSUI [I'm not sure how TextEdit and ATSUI relate to each other], it's really lame that 80 characters of Monaco is now going to look a lot shorter! BUT...I'll live. I'm not as grouchy about this as Scott, prolly 'cause I haven't upgraded yet. :) Anyway, I just wanted to point out some Monaco alternatives: I'm quite fond of BitStream's Vera family. It was developed and released under the GPL for use in Gnome applications, and it's monospaced sans variant is quite usable. More info, and a download link: http://www.bitstream.com/categories/products/fonts/vera/ http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/ Another option is the old standby ProFont. It was originally created as a more code-friendly Monaco. There's a lot of info/background as well as download links here: http://www.tobiasjung.net/profont/ FontBook should handle both without too much fuss. -- ___________________________________________________________________ / jordan friedman / "I'll tell you something; I'd date John / / --------------- / Rocker before I was a Yankees fan." / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / --Matt Damon / /_________________/________________________________________________/ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
