QSyntaxHighlighter text quality

[John Sturtz]

Hi again.

With some trepidation, I have a question about fonts again.  Not so much 
about fonts in general, but about display quality of the font I am 
using.

I have a QTableView with a custom delegate.  The delegate editor is 
implemented as a QPlainTextEdit widget which has a QSyntaxHighlighter 
associated with it.

I am loading a .ttf file at runtime and using it as the display font.  
Initially the quality is pretty poor everywhere [attached screenshot 
initial.png].

I found online the suggestion to create a font object, call 
.setHintingPreference(PreferNoHinting) on it, then apply that to the 
QApplication object [lines #175-177].  That seems to improve the display 
significantly.

Except for the text displayed by the syntax highlighter.  That text is 
still pixelated [attached screenshot highlighter.png].  It's as though 
the .setHintingPreference() call doesn't affect the syntax highlighter.

Wondering if there's any way around this?

Thanks again!

/John

[Sample code, screenshots and font file are attached]
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