Re: Font Preferences for Perl Program Editing

[merlyn]

I use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Once I discovered the Vera family, I switched my browsers and my GNU Emacs to it. Couldn't be happier.

Oddly enough, the only things on my system that aren't switched are the X11 windows, because I don't understand how to install it there. {grin} Mac OSX makes it easy to drop TTF into ~/Library/Fonts, and then select that for all carbon apps instantly. I have no clue how to do that for X11, not being a big X11 user.

[Aristotle]

Aye, pitching in another vote for Vera Sans Mono. Vera Serif is a nice serif font, and Vera Sans is a very nice sans-serif font, but Vera Sans Mono is just drop dead gorgeous.

I generally use 9pt in my 1400×1050 resolution.

Windows people probably want to fetch the Vera zip file from December14.net.

merlyn: installing it for X11 isn't too hard, just a little tedious. Look for the “font deuglification howto.”