If you’re battling with the text display in jEdit, like I did the first time around, and you’re not a big fan of the omnipresent Courier in the developers’ editors, I suggest you search for “Bitstream Vera Mono”, a nice monospaced TTF font.

After you install the font you should, in Windows at least, tweak the font smoothing to make it look good. See the screenshot below for my settings:

Keywords: cleartype, clear type, font smoothing, smooth fonts, font display, jedit options