Re: unicode font-backend + tiling

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Kenichi Handa skrev:
> In article <buopsazlzqp.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>, Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> writes:
> 
>> Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
>>> It's quite easy to display characters without aa
>>> (anti-aliasing), but the problem is how we specify aa or
>>> non-aa for a specific set of characters/fonts.  We may want
>>> aa even for Chinese characters if the font size is smaller
>>> than some threshold.  So, we must design a flexible
>>> interface that can be controlled by users.
> 
>> Couldn't Emacs, by default at least, just let xft/freetype/whatever
>> decide?
> 
> Perhaps possible for xft backend.  I've just installed a
> change for that.
> 
>> I was under the impression that other apps just did that, and
>> it seems to work well (roman letters use aa, cjk doesn't use aa at
>> "normal" sizes, but _does_ at big sizes).
> 
> I've thought that aa is useful for small sizes.

Usually not.  The smaller size the worse it looks.  OSX has a system setting 
where you can set the smallest size when AA is used.

	Jan D.