Comment 3 for bug 820493

Sure;
just let me know what to do and I'll invest some time on it.
I will really benefit from a GOOD monospaced coding font :)
Thanks
DJ

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Paul Sladen <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hello DJ, the picture is using black-and-white rendering which requires
> manual hinting information in the font to produce.
>
> The Ubuntu Mono in the beta test PPA hasn't been hinted yet. The reason
> for this is that the engineering to add hinting is very time-consuming
> and so it's best to be sure that the shapes and style of the font itself
> is correct before moving on to the hinting stage.
>
> Hinting of the four Ubuntu Mono fonts is currently underway and I've
> received a snapshot of the Regular already. When the hinted versions
> are available the jaggies should go away (see the attached screenshot of
> your "The quick brown" re-rendered with hinting.
>
> BTW, looking at that, it looks like a couple of the hinted letters could
> do with more work (the 'w' is not symmetric). Would you be interested
> in helping to /really/ test the hinted forms?
>
> ** Attachment added: "ubuntu-mono-hinting-48pt.png"
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/820493/+attachment/2252318/+files/ubuntu-mono-hinting-48pt.png
>
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