This is *very* off-topic, but how did you manage to get LuxiMono installed under OS X? Googling didn't turn up much that was obviously what I was looking for :(

-J

On 17 Nov 2005, at 09:53, Andreas Wahlin wrote:

I'd hazard a guess that TextMate is a cocoa app, whereas xcode is carbon. Thus textmate'sway is actually the "prefered" way.

Andreas

On Nov 17, 2005, at 8:55 , Jean-Marc Borer wrote:

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Hello everyone on the list,

I am just wondering why the text anti-aliasing in Textmate is so different from XCode: in Textmate, the characters are much bolder than in XCode. For example, I love LuxiMono. It is a great font for displaying code. It renders beautifully in XCode, but is much to thick in Textmate :( Any way to change that (at least make it customizable)?

Otherwise Textmate is really cool.

Cheers!

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On 17/11/2005, at 10.53, Andreas Wahlin wrote:

I'd hazard a guess that TextMate is a cocoa app, whereas xcode is carbon. Thus textmate'sway is actually the "prefered" way.

In this instance, it's sort of the other way around.

Both TextMate and Xcode are Cocoa applications, but TextMate uses the ATSUI API to render text, where Xcode uses NSLayoutManager and friends.

These two systems arrive at different font metrics for the same text, and have different features. I initially chose ATSUI because it can generate bold and italic for fonts where no explicit type face exists (sadly, ATSUI seems to not find the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono bold/ italic type faces, unless when doing some strange things to the font file) -- there are also other reasons for going with ATSUI, but NSLayoutManager starts to look as the more attractive choice (and is the only API which have been repeatedly updated throughout OS X) -- the NSLayoutManager though is still far to complex for my taste, especially if decent text rendering speeds are to be obtained.