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When I switch to Consolas I no longer get highlights for matching {} and (). I saw this issue discussed related to proportional fonts, but I think Consolas is monospace and I'm not using any of the bold settings in the other discussion.
Sorry for the noise. The problem was related to using Consolas without turning on ClearType font processing. Until I did that all symbols looked too close to bold to notice the difference.
After 10 minutes with ClearType (even after running the online ClearType tuner) and an oncoming headache from weird looking fonts I decided to go back to a Standard font processing and the old reliable Courier New. I believed the hype that ClearType was designed to make fonts look better on LCDs. On my 24" LCD it made me queasy.
i got a new LCD a few months ago and tried clear type. after a fair degree of experimentation i found it sort of helped in some places, a bit, but often it made things worse. my impression was that a lot of programs, dialogs and fonts just do not play nicely with clear type, which left me with a hodge podge effect, so i turned it off, and have not looked back since
It's odd - I've read varying accounts as well. From my own experience ClearType works great on my LCD with a DVI connection - but not so great with a VGA connector (same LCD model, same graphics card, but different physical connector on the card).
I don't think its DVI related. I haven't used a VGA connection in three years. After reading the ClearType papers at their site it seems they were designing more for small LCDs - specifically PocketPC type displays. Funny how polarizing this technology is.
The ClearType method of "cleaning up" the screen text is also highly dependent upon the colors you are using for text display and background. I have seen cases where one ClearType setting works well for black-on-white but is terrible for white-on-black in the same application with the same font.
Does Consolas break matching {}, () ?
Posted - Jun 11 2006 : 01:52:32 AM
