Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus

[Neil Woods <cnw+usenet@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Mar 14 2005, Peter Petersen wrote:

> I did some google searching for good monospace fonts to use with
> emacs. But basically I didn't get one step forward. "terminus" has
> already been mentioned, but like I said, I don't like it better than
> my monotype-courier new, which is only a sad compromise.
>
> If someone still knows of good fixed width fonts for emacs, please,
> let me know.

I'm very pleased with standard adobe-courier, which gives me *bold* and
/italic/ as well as combinations thereof.

I have the following set in ~/.Xdefaults:

!! Nice fontset with a Courier typeface:
Emacs*Fontset-1:-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-courier,\
mule-unicode-2500-33ff:-gnu-unifont-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,\
mule-unicode-e000-ffff:-gnu-unifont-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,\
mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-gnu-unifont-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1

The mule-unicode fonts are useful to provide neat threading characters
in the summary buffer.

The above render well on my 17" TFT monitor at 1280x1024. 

I've also tried terminus, but the italic rendering is very poor (in
Debian package xfonts-terminus-oblique), so I don't use that anymore.
-- 
Neil