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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:36:38 -0700
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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] problem using a vera font in rio
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> an alternative is to use the p9p fontsrv to generate fonts.
> here's acme with Calibri on OS X.

that may be a good solution for p9p's acme. i admit i hadn't looked at it.

> the glyphs are a little more washed out than in your
> screen shot, but maybe it's easier to fix that than to
> keep working on ttf2subf. =C2=A0maybe not, but either way
> it's there.

I am curious why the difference in rendering. in your screenshot 't',
'f' and 'g' look especially blurry. subpixel rendering?

what font works well for go programming in acme nowadays? what do you
use? (doesn't matter if it's variable width)