From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 2 04:53:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FFB11065670 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 04:53:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C18F28FC13 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 04:53:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o524rEkg012394; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 21:53:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 21:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 21:53:13 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Bernt Hansson Message-ID: <20100602045312.GA20938@thought.org> References: <20100529211104.GA55411@thought.org> <4C020BDA.9070508@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100530075135.GA9594@thought.org> <4C05CE51.3090406@bah.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C05CE51.3090406@bah.homeip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, GUARANTEED_100_PERCENT,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on ethic.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: fonts qstns. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:53:26 -0000 On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 05:21:53AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2010-05-30 09:51, Gary Kline skrev: > > > > according to one fellow, the top display shows only 72dpi; > > that is why sans serif [like arial] render better than, say, > > times. does this still hold? > > No it does not. My display has 96 DPI and it is 12-15 years old and > 35 Kg. thabks! it may be that this guy is too used to the DOG/Lose program-loader. he did show me my www.thought.org page on an LCD display, and my time or time-roman fonts did not render very well using XP. or whatever. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel