From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The WHY of Xft Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:24:22 +0100 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87hdj5dqll.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111416026 28774 80.91.229.2 (21 Mar 2005 14:40:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:40:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 21 15:40:25 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDO4i-0001BK-U0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:40:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDOLp-0001u5-PX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:57:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDOKW-0001Bk-2z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:56:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDOKT-00019H-Sb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:56:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDOKT-00016C-MK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:56:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DDO3j-00085O-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:39:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DDO0e-0000Xg-1A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:36:01 +0100 Original-Received: from pd95d064b.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.93.6.75]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:36:00 +0100 Original-Received: from david.hansen by pd95d064b.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:36:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd95d064b.dip.t-dialin.net Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uosrsULRlFtrCFJ9IzYkkfPzQ0A= 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34892 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34892 On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:30:55 +0900 Miles Bader wrote: > Can xft still use bitmap fonts? In the case of CJK, the commonly > available X bitmap fonts do seem to be generally more attractive at > typical text-editor size than what freetype produces for commonly[*] > available scaled fonts. Debian unstable (but AFAIK you have to manually edit this file on Debian): $ cat /etc/fonts/local.conf /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/fonts.conf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts [...] David