From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Emacs 22.1 Windows ClearType Support Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:47:37 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195771651 20392 80.91.229.12 (22 Nov 2007 22:47:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:47:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Ng, Andrew" To: "Emacs Devel" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 22 23:47:37 2007 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 1IvKpZ-0002p7-PK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:47:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IvKpL-0003z5-DV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:47:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IvKpG-0003tG-IQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:47:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IvKpE-0003po-RF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:47:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IvKpE-0003pQ-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:47:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IvKpE-0003IU-1X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:47:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id lAMMl92K032312; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:47:09 -0700 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id lAMMl8hW024362; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:47:08 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-whq-csvpn-gw3-141-144-80-100.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3382410971195771625; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:47:05 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Importance: Normal X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:83909 Archived-At: > Part of the reason that I needed a way to enable ClearType in > Emacs is that by default I actually have ClearType disabled on my > system. The reason for this is that I have a two LCD monitor > setup but unfortunately, the two LCD monitors RGB order do not > match. This effectively means that ClearType looks great on one > display and not so good on the other. That's one thing Microsoft > obviously didn't consider when implementing the ClearType support. > > Because I mostly use Emacs on the one LCD monitor, I explicitly > enable ClearType in Emacs. This won't help with tuning two LCDs differently, but it might help to know that there is a simple $free tool for tuning ClearType. Download: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypePowerToy.mspx Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType