From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: unicode font-backend + tiling Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:19:55 +0100 Message-ID: <45750F8B.7040206@swipnet.se> References: <87ejrffa4k.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165299648 1305 80.91.229.10 (5 Dec 2006 06:20:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 06:20:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, sdl.web@gmail.com, Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 05 07:20:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GrTfa-0007Dv-Go for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:20:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GrTfa-0006Uv-0L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:20:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GrTfI-0006TW-Br for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:20:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GrTfH-0006Sc-B5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:20:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GrTfH-0006SZ-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:20:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.186] (helo=av12-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GrTfG-0004vx-5e; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:20:26 -0500 Original-Received: by av12-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 2DDAC38094; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 07:20:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.92]) by av12-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6C137F6B; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 07:20:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (81-235-205-78-no59.tbcn.telia.com [81.235.205.78]) by smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC6C37E53; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 07:20:24 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Macintosh/20061025) Original-To: Kenichi Handa In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:63300 Archived-At: Kenichi Handa skrev: > In article , Miles Bader writes: > >> Kenichi Handa 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.