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* [9fans] Acme: fonts
@ 2013-12-11 18:45 Blake McBride
  2013-12-11 18:52 ` andrey mirtchovski
  2013-12-11 19:32 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 59+ messages in thread
From: Blake McBride @ 2013-12-11 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

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Greetings,

I am using acme on a Mac form plan9port.

The fonts that are used when the system comes up are usable.  Also, I know
how to use the Font command.  I tried several of the fonts (*.font) that
come with the system too.

The problem is that the fonts are low-res and pixilated (when compared to
almost any other program on the Mac).  (I think I saw the same problem
under Linux.)

Are there hi-res fonts I can use?  Perhaps fonts that come with the Max and
Linux?  I don't know how to use them.

Thanks.

Blake McBride

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* Re: [9fans] acme fonts
@ 2003-10-14 12:17 David Presotto
  2003-10-14 15:51 ` Rob Pike
  2003-10-14 16:04 ` chris
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 59+ messages in thread
From: David Presotto @ 2003-10-14 12:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Proportionally spaced fonts could be liberating, but don't
seem so in practice.  I find that all of the code lines up
nicely when I use the same font as the author (Rob included).
Perhaps we just need more time to liberate ourselves.

Formatting style goes hand in hand with programming style.
You format to make picking out elements of a program
visually easy.  While ignoring conventions can be liberating, it
can also jarring.

That said, I still think that it is incorrect to have the tools
force everyone to use a constant width font for programming.
Just as I, with my lousy vision, find constant width easier to
read, others prefer the caligraphic beauty of proportional
fonts.   If I wanted all things to line up as the original
author intended, I'ld rather people just put a comment
in their code saying what font it was written in.  It would
be nice if acme just let me point to a font name on the
screen and make executing it (button 2) mean change that window
to that font (or some such mechanism).  Then at least I
could keep tables looking like tables.

Of course, we could instead write programs in a Word/Brutus-like
editor whose output was xml with formatting inserted.  I
find that also way over the top but actually perferable
to forcing constant width fonts on everyone.


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* [9fans] acme fonts
@ 2003-10-13 16:43 Fco.J.Ballesteros
  2003-10-13 16:49 ` David Presotto
  2003-10-14  0:04 ` rob pike, esq.
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 59+ messages in thread
From: Fco.J.Ballesteros @ 2003-10-13 16:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Hi,

	we changed acme to use fixed font for anything named *.[ch...]
and var font otherwise. Just to let you know. If anyone gets
interested I can send a diff of our kludge.

hth




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2013-12-11 18:45 [9fans] Acme: fonts Blake McBride
2013-12-11 18:52 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-11 19:05   ` Christopher Wilson
2013-12-11 19:12   ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 19:15     ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-11 19:19       ` Christopher Wilson
2013-12-11 19:26     ` sl
2013-12-11 19:33       ` Rubén Berenguel
2013-12-11 19:50         ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 19:53           ` Rubén Berenguel
2013-12-11 20:04             ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 20:12               ` Rubén Berenguel
2013-12-11 20:26                 ` Mark van Atten
2013-12-11 20:03           ` sl
2013-12-11 20:06             ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-11 20:30               ` sl
2013-12-11 20:40                 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-11 20:47                 ` Mark van Atten
2013-12-11 21:04                   ` sl
2013-12-11 20:15           ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-12-11 20:38             ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 21:10               ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 21:14                 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-11 21:21                   ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 21:25                     ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 21:25                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2013-12-11 21:56                   ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 22:00                     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2013-12-11 22:05                     ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 22:08                     ` Mark van Atten
2013-12-11 19:32 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
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2020-07-21 23:21 ` Acme fonts Anthony Martin
2020-07-22 18:52   ` [9fans] " Russ Cox
2020-07-22 22:47     ` Charles Forsyth
2020-07-22 23:05       ` Rob Pike
2020-07-23  3:38         ` ori
2020-07-23  4:31           ` Rob Pike
2020-07-23  5:27     ` Lucio De Re
2020-07-23 13:08       ` Ethan Gardener
2020-11-20 21:31     ` Yaroslav K
2020-11-20 22:01       ` Stuart Morrow
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2003-10-14 12:17 [9fans] acme fonts David Presotto
2003-10-14 15:51 ` Rob Pike
2003-10-15  3:27   ` david presotto
2003-10-14 16:04 ` chris
2003-10-13 16:43 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-10-13 16:49 ` David Presotto
2003-10-13 16:56   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-10-13 19:02   ` vdharani
2003-10-13 19:35     ` Dan Cross
2003-10-14  8:09   ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-14  8:13     ` Rob Pike
2003-10-14 11:17       ` David Presotto
2003-10-14 23:44       ` George Michaelson
2003-10-15  5:30         ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-15 10:28           ` Brantley Coile
2003-10-14 19:36     ` vdharani
2003-10-15  5:40       ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-14  0:04 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-10-15  7:29   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros

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