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Colin Law schreef op 21-03-2017 14:30:

> Not sure what you are complaining about exactly. it looks ok to my 
> ancient eyes.

Err, every other font I use anywhere else looks a 100x better.

This is a screenshot from Gvim in XMing :p

http://www.xen.dds.nl/f/i/screenshots/gvim-in-xming.png

If you zoom in on the font, you will notice it looks smooth as... 
chocolate.

That's not just a visual effect of light on black, it is smooth all the 
way.

My eyes just can't stand this jaggety... or my mind can't.

If you were to compare the fonts of jEdit with that of say the default 
font of KDE Konsole even in the interface and dialogs there would be a 
night and day difference. And this goes for all other fonts you will see 
in Linux...

So I suspected we'd be having a difference of opinion (or perception) 
but I'm at least happy to know I'm not the only one suffering from 
this... or rather, that I'm not actually the only one with these bad 
fonts and that your fonts are the same ;-).




>> You've never had something like that? The autohinting doesn't work, I
>> believe. I have had the same on Kubuntu 16.04, never any different, no
>> matter what I tried.
> 
> I don't think I use autohinting.  Are you referring to one of the 
> plugins?

No no. Autohinting is an anti-alias property, it has nothing to do with 
jEdit.

I just don't know how to fix this thing... It's been going on for years, 
I believe, but I don't know what it looked like in the past -- I'd have 
to install some ancient distribution or something of the kind.

Regards.