{"id":29,"date":"2002-10-14T21:37:21","date_gmt":"2002-10-15T02:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=29"},"modified":"2016-09-26T17:05:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:05:02","slug":"profont_in_jaguars_termin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/14\/profont_in_jaguars_termin\/","title":{"rendered":"ProFont in Jaguar&rsquo;s Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"One of the little things that&rsquo;s been bugging me about Jaguar is that its Terminal application doesn&rsquo;t display <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu\/HyperArchive\/Archive\/font\/pro-font-22.hqx\">ProFont<\/a> properly. It always draws the character sequence <tt>l\/<\/tt> as a blank. This is a real problem because ProFont is the best monospaced font in the known universe, and rivals Geneva and Espy Sans for the title of best screen font period. (Plus, it&rsquo;s apparently the only one of the three that Core Graphics can draw properly; the others it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/7.10\/images\/pcp-fonts.gif\">spaces<\/a> poorly.)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSince I don&rsquo;t use Terminal that much, Monaco&mdash;after its recent tuning&mdash;would be an acceptable alternative except that Jaguar&rsquo;s Terminal gets its spacing all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arstechnica.com\/reviews\/02q3\/macosx-10.2\/macosx-10.2-13.html\">wrong<\/a>. Luckily, Google pointed me to a page by Daniel Sandler that mentions the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsandler.org\/entry.php?1004\">problem<\/a> and offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsandler.org\/entry.php?diary_1114\">solution<\/a>: use ProFontISOLatin1 in Jaguar&rsquo;s Terminal. Many thanks to Daniel and his informant.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nUpdate: Core Graphics apps like Terminal and OmniOutliner draw ProFontISOLatin1&rsquo;s hyphen character shorter than it should be. It looks fine in Mailsmith and iCab. The quest for the perfect Terminal font continues.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the little things that&rsquo;s been bugging me about Jaguar is that its Terminal application doesn&rsquo;t display ProFont properly. It always draws the character sequence l\/ as a blank. This is a real problem because ProFont is the best monospaced font in the known universe, and rivals Geneva and Espy Sans for the title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[133,104,30,655,318],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-font","tag-fontsmoothing","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-2-jaguar","tag-terminal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8122,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/8122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}