On Jan 27, 10:38 am, Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado <r...@dervishd.net> wrote: > Saluton Thomas :) > > Please, bottom-post next time, as per list uses. And personally I would > love a real name too, but that's up to you. I've used only a nick for > years and nobody told me otherwise... > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:57:35 -0800 (PST), 703designs dixit: > > > My favorite font by far is Monaco because it's very readable at small > > sizes. > > Mmm, interesting, I didn't know about this font. It looks good in the > page I've found in Google. I find it less "formal" than Deja Vu Sans, > but I don't know if that makes it better or worse. It looks good and > I'll test it in my Linux. > > My only doubt is about hinting (and subpixel rendering), so I'll have to > test, and about the license of the font. Thanks for pointing! > > > Dejavu Sans Monoand Bitstream Vera Sans Mono are practically identical > > and both are good coding fonts, but they don't do well below 10pt. > > I find them pretty good at 10 points for menus and other screen text. > For editing I use 12 points. In fact, had I a bigger monitor, I'll go to > 14 points, probably. At 10 points they're a bit hard for programming. > > > On Windows (XP) I don't think that any programming font is as crisp > > and readable as Courier although I hate how similar its parentheses > > and braces look. > > Back when the number of non-bitmaps fonts was very small (or just 0) > under X Window I always used Courier. I didn't really liked that, but it > was my best bet. Most of my coding on those days was in console, so I > used the console font, which was not perfect but was OK. Later, with > the humongous quantities of scalable fonts available under X (or > Windows, for that matter), I had a hard time choosing. Still, I prefer > Deja Vu Sans fonts, they are the easiest to read for me. But I didn't > know about Monaco... > > 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 ...
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. Thomas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
