[TextMate] monaco font readability

[kumar mcmillan]

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 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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