From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4654 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Petersen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:00:51 +0100 Organization: just testing gnus... Message-ID: <39l973F60qa11U1@individual.net> References: <42345abc$0$1078$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670529 24196 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:22:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:06 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-X-Trace: individual.net rxvTAyAhxjd4yT8RJwZvNwCo1XNuU263R4KOIOeo1J9AVaXYM= User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4795 Original-Lines: 27 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4795 Tue Jan 17 17:34:06 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4654 Archived-At: Frank Schmitt writes: >> Anyway, it would make it that much easier for me to use gnus if I were >> satisfied with the fonts when reading news. > > You should give the Terminus font from > http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/jimmy-en.html a try. If you happen to use > Suse or Mandrake, they ship it. Frank, thank you, but... I had already checked out that terminus font before. :-) In emacs it doesn't look pleasant to my eyes either, too narrow. And either not large enough or too large (like with so many fonts that are either too small or too large with not enough steps between...). Perhaps I should mention that I use a 17 inches monitor and a resolution of 1024x768. Somewhere while googling I read that fonts such as bitstream vera sans mono don't look good in emacs, because emacs doesn't work with Xft, whereas this font looks great in applications like opera, firefox etc. Ideas? thanks Peter