Hi,
one of the things that hinders me in using Squeak (and I believe a lot 
of non-native english speakers too) is the its' lack of support for free 
& nice-looking national fonts.
There is sure the posiibility to load any TTF font file, and the 
resulting TextStyle has the right emphasis for bold and italic styles, 
and character kerning, but... the rendering is that plain ugly, it makes 
the style unusable for longer work.
The other way might be loading a TTF as a HostFont (StrikeFont), which 
is (in most cases) very nice and looks almost as clean as a bitmap font, 
but... for the free, almost completely nationalized "Bitstream Vera" 
font family, the Italic style is broken (too wide chars and no kerning 
at all).
I'm not a Squeak expert, and i have still some problems understanding 
the whole textstyle/font thing and it's creation/rendering mechanics in 
particular, not talking about fixing it...
Is there any work done (or in progress) to make the HostFonts properly 
load and use the complete font info (emphasis, kerning) for all styles 
(and maybe to speed up the rendering) of these fonts?
Thanks for every suggestion.
Viktor Svub