From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:39:08 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <54eaf38892917e1c358d5f6328c92450@mikro> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] P9P font server Topicbox-Message-UUID: 97cf3ce4-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > personally, i like the simplicity of plan 9's approach. a bigger issue > for me is plan 9's fixed string height: =E2=80=9C=C3=82=E2=80=9D 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?