I have problems to setup a clear readable monospaced font
for the editor. I'm not sure but it looks as monospaced, plain
is substituted by some kind of sans serif on my system.
Antialiaing would be higkly welcome too.
This problem occurs with updating Arduino from 0.22 -> 1.0
and Opensuse 11.3 -> 12.1.
The attachment pic shows on the left 'kate' monospace
and on the right my Arduino IDE font.
Am working example preferences.txt is highly welcome.
thanks
wally
Could you test under a different distro ?
no 
I'm asking because that can be distro related rather than IDE.. you mentioned that you've changed Suse's version.
Yes, may be distro related. Kate and other editors are also distro related, if they rely on distro fonts.
Does Arduino IDE rely on distro fonts or use its own fonts ?
I think processing has a feature to create own fonts. But all this java stuff is beyound my nderstanding.
So, for me it looks like Arduino has 3 files to set appearance:
~/.arduino/preferences.txt
~/IDE/arduino-1.0/lib/preferences.txt
~/IDE/arduino-1.0/lib/theme/theme.txt
very confusing all this stuff.
