Re: [9fans] Acme: fonts

[Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>]

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Your font does look better than what I have (but not perfect).
 Monaco didn't come with 9p9.  Where did you get that?

I am changing font via the Acme Font command on the tag line; i.e.

     Font /usr/local/plan9port/font/fixed/unicode.9x15B.font

It is changing the font.  The change is obvious.

Since most Mac (or Linux) apps have fonts that appear smoothly, fonts
without significant compression exist.  How can I get "uncompressed" / much
higher resolution fonts for acme?

Thanks.

Blake



On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Rubén Berenguel <ruben@mostlymaths.net>wrote:

> Check here:
>
> https://vimeo.com/64487176
>
> The slight pixelation comes from the video compression. The font is
> Monaco, on my old Macbook
>
> How are you exactly changing fonts, though?
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name> wrote:
>
>> I checked.  fontsrv didn't compile.  I'm sure I can get it to compile
>> but I don't see the point.  Acme comes up, I can change fonts, etc..  What
>> will fontsrv buy me?
>>
>> Incidentally, when I look on the net at picture or videos of acme, the
>> fonts they show on all of those are pixilated too.  See:
>>
>> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Acme.png
>> http://research.swtch.com/acme
>>
>> Those look like mine.  Obviously it is highly usable, but the fonts shown
>> are pixilated and not smooth like fonts that come with the Mac, Linux, etc.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Rubén Berenguel <ruben@mostlymaths.net>wrote:
>>
>>> When I installed p9ports in my new Macbook Air (around 4 months ago),
>>> fontsrv didn't compile "out of the box," I had to compile it separately.
>>> For me all available fonts read perfectly well and sharp (Mac OS X 10.9 on
>>> Air 13" and Mac OS X 10.6.8 on Macbook 13")
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Ruben
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:26 PM, <sl@9front.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> > still a bit pixilated
>>>>
>>>> 1 bit fonts are legible. this is a feature.
>>>>
>>>> sl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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