Here's a strange thing. I'm using ProFont, unaliased, and the tool tips look weird. Attached is a screen capture showing the same output as normal window text and tool tip text. Notice spacing issues and some characters running together ("fi" of file), neither of which are a problem under monaco.
I understand this probably because ProFont is just a somewhat roughly built font, but weird and relevant enough I should share.
Q
At 21:24 Uhr -0800 30.03.2006, Quinn Comendant wrote:
Here's a strange thing. I'm using ProFont, unaliased, and the tool tips look weird.
ummm... sorry, but which tool tips? The tool tips I know in TextMate (when you hover the mouse over a file tab in a project) do not use the font you've set up in the "Fonts & Colurs" section of TM's preferences. Did I miss something?
Attached is a screen capture showing the same output as normal window text and tool tip text.
No screen capture here.
Which version of ProFont are you using? Bitmap or TrueType, Mac or Windows format?
Regards, Tobias
On 31/3/2006, at 7:24, Quinn Comendant wrote:
ProFont is weird in that it has half a dozen ligatures [1] (considering it is a fixed width font).
In TM I disable all such typographic features, but tool tip text rendering is done by NSTextView (that’s also why spacing in the text and tool tip may differ slightly, as NSTextView doesn’t use ATSUI).
There are however two versions of ProFont. The one with the ISO- something suffix (or similar) does not contain these ligatures, so is the better choice.
William Bumgarner wrote:
i find that ProFont only looks good in the unbold, unitalic, mode. As soon as either mode is added, it gets rather chunky.
Yup. Leave it plain, the way it was meant to be. It's hard for any non-anti-aliased 9 point font to have a good looking italic version, though pixelated Profont with faux italics is especially bad. I just turn off italics in the prefs, and replace it with colorization.
Allan, if you could figure out how to get plain text pixelated, but italics anti-aliased, that would be hot.
-Jacob
No screen capture here.
No, it's in this email. ;P
Which version of ProFont are you using? Bitmap or TrueType, Mac or Windows format?
Mac TrueType v2.2
Unaliased, so you mean you have anti-aliasing turned ON, in fact? ;)
Sorry! I meant unantialiased. ;P
Q
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:24:41 -0800, Quinn Comendant wrote:
On 04 Apr 2006, at 09:57, Allan Odgaard wrote:
Just found a version of ProFont for OS X [1].
All the ligatures are removed, but there is no weirdness as in the ProFontISOLatin1 (e.g. single quote positioned on the right).
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