On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:30 PM, St��phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
this is strange because I get a blurry result.
Should I have a specific package loaded: I tried with the 10309dev and
the VM has the FT2plugin

Stef
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This is actually confusing me, too. ��My favorite coding font by far is Consolas, a proprietary Microsoft font that ships with Vista and newer versions of Office. ��(Hey, give me a break; once every 30 years, they're allowed to get something right.) ��I therefore gave the following configuration a shot:

font := LogicalFont familyName: 'Lucida Grande' pointSize: 10.
codeFont := LogicalFont familyName: 'Consolas' pointSize: 9.
titleFont := LogicalFont familyName: 'Lucida Grande' pointSize: 11.

Preferences setListFontTo: font.
Preferences setMenuFontTo: font.
Preferences setCodeFontTo: codeFont.
Preferences setButtonFontTo: font.
Preferences setSystemFontTo: font.
Preferences setWindowTitleFontTo: titleFont.

Unfortunately, under Pharo, the result's so bad, I feel as if I'm trying to code through beer goggles. ��The Lucida Grande looks fine, but the Consolas looks as if it has been heavily smeared. ��Oddly, the problem mostly goes away if I change Consolas' size to 8 points, rather than 9. ��To me, without any knowledge of what Pharo does for fonts, that screams that the FreeType plugin is built without the bytecode interpreter. ��If so, I think it can safely be enabled on both OS X and Windows, since the patent holders are Apple and Microsoft.

--Benjamin