Smalltalk & Squeak featured on Slashdot

Douglas Brebner douglas+list at fang.demon.co.uk
Sat Apr 28 15:25:41 UTC 2001


On Thursday 26 April 2001 04:21, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> 	>I am not exactly in the flush of youth any more, and for me the pin-head
> 	> size of the default font is difficult to read.
>
> Bob Arning <arning at charm.net> replied:
> 	I'm curious, do you know about how many pixels per inch your
> 	monitor generates?  Mine is in the low 80's and, although I have
> 	upgraded my reading glasses several times in the last 4 years, I find
> 	the Squeak font to be much more legible than, e.g. the TV listings in
> 	the newspaper.
>
> For what it's worth, on the Solaris box where I usually use Squeak,
> xdpyinfo tells me
>   dimensions:    1152x900 pixels (325x254 millimeters)
>   resolution:    90x90 dots per inch
>
> If "12 point" type should have a baseline-to-baseline distance of 12
> points, that means 15 pixels (14.944, using "true" points).
>
> One understands that StrikeFonts are bitmap fonts, so they're not going to
> scale easily, but surely 90 dots per inch has been common enough for
> several years to warrant a set of fonts that are the right size for it? 
> Can any of the X fonts be adapted?

FWIW I find the default fonts uncomfortable to read on my 100dpi monitor and 
my vision is perfect.





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