[TextMate] monaco font readability

Johan Sörensen johans at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 19:18:44 UTC 2004


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 at 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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