Thanks, but anti-aliasing IS turned on.
The image I posted is not a lo-fi gif of non-anti-aliased text, but is virtually exactly what I see on the screen.
One interesting thing is that turning anti-aliasing OFF changes the font-rendering to match the metrics (ie, the lines become the same length) though not of course the look of the textedit example.
(sorry about threading, I accidentally had digest mode turned on for this list)
Cheerio,
Michael Johnston lastobelus@mac.com