Linked List: February 8, 2006

Wednesday, 8 February 2006

Linotype Typeface Catalog A-Z 

Complete catalog of the entire Linotype type library, including 542 pages of typeface displays, for just $16. Shipping to the U.S. runs another $25, alas. Ordered. (Via Cameron Moll.)

Luxagraf: New Adventures in HiFi Text 

Great essay on the joys of writing in plain text; specifically, using Markdown in conjunction with LaTeX.

Subpixel Anti-Aliasing’s Achilles Heel 

Michel Fortin’s interesting analysis as to why subpixel anti-aliasing isn’t used in some Mac apps: it’s a necessary side-effect of the performance optimization of drawing to an off-screen buffer with a transparent background. Maybe this explains why Dashboard widgets don’t use subpixel anti-aliasing, either.

Using GPC with BBEdit on Tiger 

Peter N. Lewis explains how he set up BBEdit as a development environment for GNU Pascal. Interarchy is the only major Mac app I’m aware of that’s still written in Pascal. (Pascal was originally the preferred language for Mac development — the examples in the original Inside Macintosh developer documentation were all Pascal.)

Update: GraphicConverter is written in Pascal, too.

What Would Panic Do? 

Note to self: try to get DF bracelets made to pass around at SXSW.