On 2005-08-14 02:41:18 +0200, Olle Eriksson wrote:
> On Saturday 13 August 2005 20.46, Tom wrote:
> > I once read something like "xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera Sans" -fs 12",

With that, a 80-column xterm doesn't fit on my screen!!!
(Perhaps because of some Unicode characters, that are very large...)

> > but in terminals, I seem to prefer fonts that aren't anti-aliased.

Me too, though the problem isn't the fact that they are anti-aliased,
but they aren't designed for small sizes (it's more bitmap fonts vs
outline fonts).

> xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera" -fs 8
> 
> ..gives slightly better result for me.

Much better result here, but the accented characters (e.g. è and ê)
are crap.

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