Re: TrueType fonts for xvile

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Jan 01, 2025 at 03:37:34PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
> brendan wrote:
>  >    As far as fonts go, I use Hack (Debian package fonts-hack) for
>  >    programming. 
>  
> Welp.  There's a day I'll never get back!  I can't believe you made me
> look closely at the fonts I've been using.  Sheesh.  :-)

that sounds like fun

Actually, today I've taken a break from working on mawk

https://github.com/ThomasDickey/original-mawk/issues

(mainly #72) to fix compiler warnings

https://github.com/ThomasDickey?page=1&tab=repositories

and work on test-coverage with lcov, like this:

https://invisible-island.net/vttest/vttest.html#link_tools

...and in the previous break, I tested Ghostty - it needs some work:

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#toc-_Ghostty
 
> I'd been using Monospace Regular for a long time, but because I'd
> chosen a Liberation font for something else on my desktop, I switched
> to Liberation Mono for my terminals, thinking they'd all look nice
> together.  But after a few days, I decided something was wrong with
> it (it turns out the font is squashed vertically for some reason), and
> I remembered this mail thread, and went and installed the Hack font.
> I agree -- it's a nice font.  I also found Fira Mono -- that's nice
> too.  And while comparing, I realized that there were things that were
> really ugly about my old familiar Monospace Regular.  So I couldn't go
> back.  (The centerline of the hyphen and > and < symbols don't line
> up, so C pointers look really dumb!  The horror!!  :-)
> 
> But both Hack and Fira also made some odd choices for a couple of
> characters each.  The Hack percent sign (%) is horrible looking, and
> the 0 digit has this weird dark ellipse down the middle.  OTOH, Fira
> gets those right, but the @ sign is truly weird, the lowercase 'g' is
> odd, and the "Regular" version is inexplicably wider than all the
> others in the family.
> 
> So I just spent a bunch of not-so-quality time with fontforge,
> indulging what might be my mild OCD. :-)  I fixed the 0 and the % to
> my satisfaction, and for now, I'm a happy camper.
> 
> So thank you.  I think!
> 
> paul
> "Ooh!  Maybe I should adjust the tail on that comma!"  
> 
> =----------------------
> paul fox, pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 42.7 degrees)
> 
> 
> 

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net

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