From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: how to promote the new font backend? Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:26:14 +0800 Message-ID: <48C2BD36.4020804@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220722039 24551 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2008 17:27:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 17:27:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Development To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 06 19:28:15 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kc1a2-000111-6m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:28:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37370 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc1Z2-0003Uc-CR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:27:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc1Yx-0003Tt-HX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc1Yw-0003SL-3K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35863 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc1Yv-0003S4-PN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:27:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.188]:20657) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kc1Yw-000182-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:27:06 -0400 Original-Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id u5so512186tia.10 for ; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:27:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:sender; bh=hVuiggHq3M8kPNSwREXh2jVVkqO0v4dZHyUX9MKPSfQ=; b=HWaAC+KPquKRWtHe8LgzhpGdhzfTwwGDuqiwupSIDZ2gPnr+bywwnG4YktmYs5Q/G5 sfiOqDAlX605RtzYyukJdQXaAE6v5HM9bnkZ1BIoePQO65RcJC5AmTpuJ6/UJDBzPzD9 NA5LdIp7QeuBJani0i1keuEPt6Dr++kWTYp3g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :sender; b=jk53HCz82bm2lymW/U2PSpCvwFPF6qBV2wmM5y22vayp9w/ar7q5FEItd46K682Wrm ghYcr/HazXropfPQeiDpsDVcJoL954zjWDB1S8jNKe7hl4IRePCy556NADsLWks2VypY uHBDzhIydNfbcv/IDRX3+ypePk2PZmoycfDWs= Original-Received: by 10.110.69.5 with SMTP id r5mr17055961tia.17.1220722022650; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:27:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?10.0.1.5? ( [118.100.112.248]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a14sm4603774tia.0.2008.09.06.10.27.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:27:01 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:103594 Archived-At: joakim@verona.se wrote: > Recently I reinstalled my primary workstation with fc9. I noticed lots > of weird font issues with emacs. > What kinds of issues? They might indicate a bug. > How do we provide nice font defaults for new users? > The default font if XFT is configured is monospace-12. Most fontconfig installations will map this to a modern font capable of using antialiasing. Does your installation fail to map it, or map it to a bitmap font?