Re: Fonts Issues

Hey there Mike,

Thanks for the message...

On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:57:34 -0500, Mike B. <mb78aa-/[email protected]> wrote:

> 1. Nedit does not show many of the fonts installed on my machine. How  
> can I make Nedit aware of them?.

Which fonts are you talking about in particular? NEdit uses the  
traditional font model underlying X Windows, so sometimes if the font is  
only available through things like freetype which don't communication  
fully with the standard font system on X Windows (there are a lot of  
different font libraries in X Windows, and thus, this can get confusing  
sometimes), then it may not show up. On the other hand, NEdit filters out  
certain fonts from display because they are proportional fonts, and you  
can usually display those by checking the option in the Fonts dialog to  
display proportional font.

> 2. The legibility of fonts both in the menus and in the text editing  
> region is quite poor compared to gedit. Is it possible to improve this?.  
> Does Nedit support anti-aliased fonts?.

Use a better font. Also, keep in mind that NEdit does not make use of  
anti-aliasing fonts at the moment, so you should focus on picking good  
bitmapped fonts. Some fonts expect anti-aliasing and therefore do not look  
very good without it. On the other hand, there are other fonts which look  
pretty good even without anti-aliasing.

A lot of people would probably disagree with me here (and I'm a big fan of  
serif fonts, so that is quite a bias here as well), but I do like the  
default Luxi Mono fonts that come with X Windows. I think the do a pretty  
good job, and the only reason I do not like them stems from their lack of  
Unicode support. However, NEdit does not support Unicode right now, so  
that's not a big problem when choosing a font for use in NEdit.

I also have my fonts at a fairly high resolution since I have a high  
resolution monitor, so blowing up the fonts (or at least, picking the  
larger fonts) is a major requirement for me. I think that the Luxi fonts  
stand up pretty well, but you can tell that they are not anti-aliased.  
This doesn't bother me since they are quite readable and look pretty good  
even without anti-aliasing.

	Aaron W. Hsu

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