I am using Ubuntu 1.0 with GNOME 2.8, fontconfig 2.2.2, and XFree86
4.3.99.
I want to disable anti-aliasing below certain sizes EXCEPT for the
monospace font, which I want anti-aliased at all sizes. With the
settings that I have chosen in /etc/fonts/local.conf, fonts like
Verdana, Arial are behaving as expected---i.e. they are not anti-aliased
at a size of 14 pts---at 15 points and above, they are anti-aliased.
Monospace font, however, is not behaving as expected. In gEdit, the
monospace font is NOT anti-aliased at a size of 10 pts. Above 10 pts,
it is anti-aliased (I am not specifying a size of 10 pts anywhere---so I
do not know where this magical # of 10 comes from).
I have two match blocks in my /etc/fonts/local.conf. The first one is
supposed to turn off antialiasing for all fonts below 14.5 pts except
monospace. The second block is supposed to turn on anti-aliasing for
the monospace font at all sizes. However, this does not work as
expected. If I take both of these blocks away, then the monospace font
is anti-aliased at all sizes---but the rest of the fonts are also
anti-aliased at all sizes----something that is not desirable.
Here is a snippet from my /etc/fonts/local.conf:
<match target="font">
<test qual="all" name="family" compare="not_eq">
<string>monospace</string>
</test>
<test name="pixelsize" compare="less">
<double>14.5</double>
</test>
<edit name="antialias">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern">
<test qual="all" name="family" compare="eq">
<string>monospace</string>
</test>
<edit name="antialias">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
BTW, Linux systems try to anti-alias at all sizes---this is not right.
If we compare this to Windows XP, we will see that fonts below a size of
about 13 pts are not anti-aliased. This is because smaller fonts when
anti-aliased tend to appear fuzzy without really adding any benefit. I
think Linux vendors should follow this by default as well so that I
don't have to go through this pain.
It just that the way the monospace font is made, it has to be
anti-aliased even at smaller sizes---otherwise it appears rough on the
screen.
Salman
