31 Mar
2006
31 Mar
'06
5:24 a.m.
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
31 Mar
31 Mar
6:48 a.m.
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.
Notice spacing issues and some
characters running together ("fi" of file), neither of which are a
problem under monaco.
Which version of ProFont are you using? Bitmap or TrueType, Mac or Windows
format?
Regards,
Tobias
7:12 a.m.
On 31/3/2006, at 7:24, Quinn Comendant wrote:
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.
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.
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_%28typography%29
3:27 p.m.
On Mar 31, 2006, at 1:04 AM, Sune Foldager wrote:
On 31/03/2006, at 7:24, Quinn Comendant wrote:
Ah, the smell of pedantry in the morning...
i find that ProFont only looks good in the unbold, unitalic, mode.
As soon as either mod is added, it gets rather chunky.
b.bum
I'm using ProFont, unaliased,
Unaliased, so you mean you have anti-aliasing turned ON, in fact? ;) 
3:45 p.m.
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
5:26 p.m.
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:
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
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4 Apr
4 Apr
7:57 a.m.
On 31/3/2006, at 19:26, Quinn Comendant wrote:
If you didn’t get it from my original reply, you need to use
ProFontISOLatin1 for the ligatures to not show in the tool tips.
Which version
of ProFont are you using? Bitmap or TrueType, Mac or
Windows
format?
Mac TrueType v2.2 
12 Apr
12 Apr
10:56 p.m.
On 04 Apr 2006, at 09:57, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 31/3/2006, at 19:26, Quinn Comendant wrote:
If you didn’t get it from my original reply, you need to use
ProFontISOLatin1 for the ligatures to not show in the tool tips.
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).
[1] http://www.faisal.com/software/profontx/
Which
version of ProFont are you using? Bitmap or TrueType, Mac
or Windows
format?
Mac TrueType v2.2
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