From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Simmons Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.1 \(3251\)) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:30:08 +1300 References: <78bfcfcf8c63f0f01e970956e3b8af20@quintile.net> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <3F542827-9E06-4A55-9750-B8F6E832EFA3@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Hack font for plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ac07e174-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 What size grapefruit are we talking here? Using grapefruit bought from = my local supermarket = (http://www.paknsave.co.nz/upper-north-island/auckland/royal-oak/) I = could fit at most 5 vertically, 7 horizontally into the screen of a 27 = inch iMac. I=E2=80=99m fairly sure I could fit more 9pt lucm runes on my = screen. But while I=E2=80=99m here, for those of you who are fans of = Lucida Grande for code, does it never piss you off that [] looks like a = box in that typeface, there being no apparent gap between the left and = right brackets? > On Nov 17, 2016, at 4:35 AM, Stanley Lieber wrote: >=20 > Steve Simon wrote: >=20 >>> I have converted the open source font called Hack to plan 9 font >> format. >>=20 >> Thats nice, not sure if I will switch, I will try it for a week or >> so... >>=20 >> I think the sizes are wrong, the 14 point in the hack directory looks >> close to 9 point in >> the plan9 pelm font. >>=20 >> -Steve >=20 > To be fair, 9pt lucm appears as (roughly) grapefruit sized runes on = most screens. Compare with 9pt fonts as rendered on an 8.5x11 page by = ghostscript. >=20 > sl >=20 >=20