From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] P9P font server
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:39:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7e65f59344eedfea5e8c18f5bccc1ba@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54eaf38892917e1c358d5f6328c92450@mikro>
> personally, i like the simplicity of plan 9's approach. a bigger issue
> for me is plan 9's fixed string height: “” looks bad.
I'm at the receiving end of what is not as slow an Internet connection
as I have suffered from in the past, but it's expensive. And the
hardware I have access to is also not very fast. Storage is a minor
issue here, although it can't be totally ignored. Installing Plan 9,
Inferno (yes, that one too contributes a set of fonts) and p9p just
takes too long and after a few times one gets impatient.
The string height, is that a font or a rendering problem? I mean, do
the Plan 9 fonts suffer from it, or is it the graphics system that
can't deal with ascenders adequately? Looking at your example, I'd
say the former.
++L
PS: Your answer, then, is" "don't bother", I presume. Are there more
opinions? Different ones?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-12 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-12 11:45 lucio
2013-12-12 14:15 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-12 14:39 ` lucio [this message]
2013-12-12 15:01 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-12 15:32 ` lucio
2013-12-13 17:26 ` Friedrich Psiorz
2013-12-14 11:23 ` Pavel Zholkover
2013-12-14 13:11 ` Friedrich Psiorz
2013-12-14 13:13 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-14 17:20 ` Friedrich Psiorz
2013-12-14 17:40 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-14 18:16 ` Friedrich Psiorz
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