I am not sure if I should put this in as a feature request...
There is a very very nice feature (or possibly quirk?) to the text library that SubEthaEdit and BBEdit are built on. When you adjust the font size for Monaco down to "9" then it loses its fuzziness and "snaps" into pixel-perfect, fixed-width readability. I don't know why this happens but TextMate doesn't do it. If I turn font smoothing off for size 9 and lower, TextMate makes Monaco pixelated and crisper, but it does not look fixed-width (i.e. it's slightly squished together for some letters and not very easy to read).
I know this seems trivial, but staring at code all day is hard enough on the eyes as it is, yet the SubEtha/BBEdit font rendering is much more scannable.
Any ideas of settings adjustments I can try?
thanks, kumar
Hi,
There is a very very nice feature (or possibly quirk?) to the text library that SubEthaEdit and BBEdit are built on. When you adjust the font size for Monaco down to "9" then it loses its fuzziness and "snaps" into pixel-perfect, fixed-width readability. I don't know why this happens but TextMate doesn't do it. If I turn font smoothing off for size 9 and lower, TextMate makes Monaco pixelated and crisper, but it does not look fixed-width (i.e. it's slightly squished together for some letters and not very easy to read).
Which version of TextMate do you use? There was some changes in the font rendering in version 1.0.1b1 and 1.0.1b2 so if you are using TextMate 1.0 or 1.0.1b1, you should maybe try with the latest beta.
Vincent Isambart
My Monaco is as crisp as in any other program
you do have antialiasing in TM turned off right? (View > Anti Alias Text)
-j
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:26:30 -0500, kumar mcmillan kmcmillan@leapfrogonline.com wrote:
I am not sure if I should put this in as a feature request...
There is a very very nice feature (or possibly quirk?) to the text library that SubEthaEdit and BBEdit are built on. When you adjust the font size for Monaco down to "9" then it loses its fuzziness and "snaps" into pixel-perfect, fixed-width readability. I don't know why this happens but TextMate doesn't do it. If I turn font smoothing off for size 9 and lower, TextMate makes Monaco pixelated and crisper, but it does not look fixed-width (i.e. it's slightly squished together for some letters and not very easy to read).
I know this seems trivial, but staring at code all day is hard enough on the eyes as it is, yet the SubEtha/BBEdit font rendering is much more scannable.
Any ideas of settings adjustments I can try?
thanks, kumar
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On Oct 13, 2004, at 2:18 PM, Johan Sörensen wrote:
My Monaco is as crisp as in any other program
you do have antialiasing in TM turned off right? (View > Anti Alias Text)
ahh... that was it. Anti Alias Text was turned on. When I turned it off, back to normal. thanks,
K
-j
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:26:30 -0500, kumar mcmillan kmcmillan@leapfrogonline.com wrote:
I am not sure if I should put this in as a feature request...
There is a very very nice feature (or possibly quirk?) to the text library that SubEthaEdit and BBEdit are built on. When you adjust the font size for Monaco down to "9" then it loses its fuzziness and "snaps" into pixel-perfect, fixed-width readability. I don't know why this happens but TextMate doesn't do it. If I turn font smoothing off for size 9 and lower, TextMate makes Monaco pixelated and crisper, but it does not look fixed-width (i.e. it's slightly squished together for some letters and not very easy to read).
I know this seems trivial, but staring at code all day is hard enough on the eyes as it is, yet the SubEtha/BBEdit font rendering is much more scannable.
Any ideas of settings adjustments I can try?
thanks, kumar
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