Fixing font spacing in Terminal.app

[Ken Williams]

Hi,

I upgraded to Jaguar this weekend and was annoyed to find that Terminal.app had screwed up the horizontal font spacing in my setup. I'm no font layout snob, but for some reason this was really annoying - using Monaco 9, there was a column of pixels missing between columns 1 and 2 of text, so that the letters were all smashed up against each other. Changing the "font character spacing width" seemed promising, but I couldn't get the spacing exactly right without messing it up elsewhere in the window.

What finally worked was to add the following to any of my .term files, and to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist :

<key>FontWidthSpacing</key>
<string>1.002</string>

Apparently 1.0 is slightly too small.

Hope someone else finds this useful, or that I can find this in a search engine next time I need it. ;-)

-Ken