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h1. About Meslo LG
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h3. Version 1.20
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Meslo LG is a customized version of Apple's Menlo-Regular font
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(which is a customized Bitstream Vera Sans Mono).
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In Snow Leopard, Menlo-Regular is now the preferred and default font for Apple's
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developer tools and also the Terminal (unless you changed the font settings for
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these apps yourself before upgrading to SL - your changes will stay in place).
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I really like Menlo but I do have my nitpicky gripes with it:
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* The default vertical (line) spacing is just way to cramped for me, and also
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* I am not particularily fond of the horizontal baseline alignment of the asterisk.
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That's why I decided to customize Menlo, regarding these "issues".
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The tricky part is keeping all the custom tables, hints, etc. intact when you
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adjust the globally very affecting stuff that results in vertical spacing.
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The LG in Meslo LG stands for Line Gap. The idea behind it is to allow the user
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to have some control over vertical spacing by choosing one of three line gap
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variants: small, medium and large (Meslo LG S, Meslo LG M and Meslo LG L respectively).
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If you're interested in looks, you can find a "comparison":http://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/wiki/Menlo-Meslo-LG-Compared-%28Mac-OS-X%29 (for Mac OS X) in the Wiki.
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And here's some "example screenshots":http://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/wiki/Meslo-LG-Examples-%28Windows%29 for Windows.
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For a possible way to install this font on your Windows console please see
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"Using Meslo LG with the Windows Console":http://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/wiki/Using-Meslo-LG-with-the-Windows-Console.
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You can find a FAQ "here":http://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/wiki/Frequently-Answered-Questions.
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For more articles please refer to the "Meslo-Font Wiki":http://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/wiki.
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Last, but not least, for additional info and comparisons please consult the About PDF that comes with the
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downladable ZIP archive.
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%{color:crimson}NOTE: the downloads tab is no longer supported on GitHub.%
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%{color:crimson}This just means you now download the font through the repository ZIP<br>which you can get up top or% "HERE":http://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/archive/master.zip
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Have Fun!
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André Berg
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h3. History
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v0.1
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Initial release.
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v1.0
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Meslo has changed it's name to Meslo LG which now includes three variants:
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small, medium and large.
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LG stands for Line Gap, so there's one variant for smaller vertical line spacing,
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more towards Apple's Menlo, a normal line gap (which equals Meslo v0.1) and
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a large gap, which is more than twice the space of Apple's Menlo.
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In addition to Regular, there's Italic, Bold and Bold Italic font styles
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included for each LG variant.
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Tweaked the ascender/descender/line gap relationship a bit for better layout
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at marginal smaller font sizes and prominent font styles (such as Bold and
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Bold Italic). Things line underlines should be better to perceive now for
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the font styles.
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The asterisk (*) was tweaked for all font styles.
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This includes making it line up with all alignment zones for similar height
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symbol characters and fixing Menlo's absence of a slanting angle for the italic
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and bold italic font styles while maintaining the readability at all sizes.
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v1.0
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Added a dotted zero version of Meslo LG which is called Meslo LG DZ.
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v1.2
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- reworked all OS/2 metrics to perform uniformely across platforms...
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- ...which should fix issues with monospace layout and line height on Windows.
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(tests in Notepad, Eclipse and Visual Studio 2012 Express on Windows 7 x64 SP1
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look promising).
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v1.2.1
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- improved ClearType and DirectWrite hinting on Windows 7+ systems.
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- fixed a hinting issue on Windows making the 0 (zero) glyph appear taller for
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some PPEM sizes.
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<i>Note: if you are on OS X and are currently happy with Meslo v1.0 there is
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no need to upgrade to v1.2 since this version is just fixes for Windows mostly.
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Also, sorry, no Arabic support yet since I haven't found a Bitstream like font
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that allows extracting portions of arabic code pages to be used in another font.</i>
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h3. Copyright and Trademark Information
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Menlo is a Trademark of Apple Inc.
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Bitstream Vera is a trademark of Bitstream, Inc., designed by Jim Lyles.
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Menlo-Regular:
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Copyright © 2009 Apple Inc.
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Copyright © 2006 by Tavmjong Bah.
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Copyright © 2003 by Bitstream, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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All other brands and product names not specifically listed are trademarks or
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registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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h3. Thanks
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Thank you to Jim Lyles and Bitstream for the Bitstream Vera family of fonts.
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Also, huge thanks to George Williams for the free font editing program "FontForge":http://fontforge.org.
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h3. License
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Copyright 2009, 2010, 2013 André Berg
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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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You may obtain a copy of the License at
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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limitations under the License.
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