From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <680C3DA2-9DBC-4524-8F6E-31885F9E7446@storytotell.org> <56a297000908141626l5865febfiad288956c06f357b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:29:43 -0400 Message-ID: From: Akshat Kumar To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Using proportional fonts in Acme for Programming Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4ad95774-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Speaking of fonts in Acme, using the default, I spent extra amount of time tracking down a bug in my gs(1) source, which was the mix-up between -lijs and -Iijs. Apparently 'I' is shorter than 'l' by some portion of a pixel. how could I possibly miss that ak P.S.: This isn't Acme's fault - it's the same trouble in the font I'm using to type this message - in GMail in Firefox.