From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 19:03:07 +0200 Message-ID: <87prrd54xg.fsf@escher.local.home> References: <87fxsjmmo2.fsf@escher.local.home> <87fxsiczun.fsf@escher.local.home> <482E4EB0.3070003@harpegolden.net> <87wslti040.fsf@escher.local.home> <482EE57C.8050009@harpegolden.net> <87ve1cn5dz.fsf@escher.local.home> <482FA2EE.7010900@harpegolden.net> <873aofscdz.fsf@escher.local.home> <87lk226ppg.fsf@escher.local.home> <4836450B.7000403@harpegolden.net> <87y7615hn2.fsf@escher.local.home> <4836EC67.90400@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211562226 8245 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2008 17:03:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 17:03:46 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 23 19:04:24 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 1Jzagf-0006iF-OU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 19:04:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44668 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jzafv-0008BK-6f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 13:03:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jzafq-00089E-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 13:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jzafo-000874-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 13:03:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36740 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jzafn-00086m-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 13:03:19 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:59417 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jzafn-0007EC-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 13:03:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Jzafl-0003bc-81 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 17:03:17 +0000 Original-Received: from i5387e593.versanet.de ([83.135.229.147]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2008 17:03:17 +0000 Original-Received: from Stephen.Berman by i5387e593.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2008 17:03:17 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i5387e593.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:97600 Archived-At: On Fri, 23 May 2008 17:10:15 +0100 David De La Harpe Golden wrote: > Stephen Berman wrote: > >>> Was this still with FontBackend: xft >> >> Yes. >> >>> I recommend "no". Unless you really have a need of particular glyphs >>> from or just can't live without some old favorite (probably monospace) >>> bitmap font I guess. >> >> My system has the above files and directories. There was no symlink >> from either of those files, so I added the "no" one, as you suggested, >> ran fc-cache -fv, and then emacs -q. Helvetica is still not anti-aliased. >> > > Hmm. Think it is also possible to instruct fontconfig not to antialias > for particular fonts and sizes, but I doubt you've deliberately done that. At least not consciously :-) > Er. Mind you, on my system, the only font actually *called* "Helvetica" > is the bitmap font that IIRC ships with x.org. But quite a few people > have a "Helvetica" outline font (sometimes of dubious legality). I had > assumed you had an outline helvetica... > > So.... just to cross-check - what does > > fc-list : family scalable | grep -i helvetica > > now return for you? Adobe Helvetica:scalable=False Steve Berman