[TextMate] monaco font readability - TextMate

13 Oct 2004


      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