Re: System fonts

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:

> > > For example,
> > > if I choose a "ChineseFont" as NSUserFont and use it to display text,
> > > it will use "ChineseFont" to display both latin and chinese glyph
> > > because this "ChineseFont" contain both latin and chinese glyph.
> > > But the latin glyph is ugly and is not fixed-pitched,
> > > which cause problem in Terminal.app.
> > > (Chinese glyph is always fixed-pitched due to the nature of its
> > > character).
> > > If I choose a "EnglishFont" as NSUserFont and use it to display text,
> > > all the chinese glyph will not display,
> > > though the latin glyph is good-looking.
> > What do some people here mean by the ugliness of some fonts?  Are you
> > talking about ligature and kerning, which we don't need for CJK proper
> > script?
>
> I think Yen-Ju is quite clear about the latin characters provided by
> the CJK fonts
> that is ugly. 
Do you?  It's still not clear to me what you mean by that...

I raised the questions in hope of someone defining the problem as a
technical one, not an aesthetic one.  Otherwise, I don't know what
to do.  Someday I heard that there was a country which held a beauty
contest for fat women.  The lesson is, IMHO, you can't tell what people
think is beauty or ugly.  From Yen-Ju's comment, I got little clue for 
defining the problem in terms of technology, as I couldn't make out
what he meant by the word 'ugly' exactly.

Regards,
- Kazunobu Kuriyama