From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: font-backend Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:29:00 +0900 Message-ID: References: <8463wrm4ls.fsf@gmail.com> <47B55785.8030802@gnu.org> <47B607C6.20601@gnu.org> <47B61D6A.3070004@gnu.org> <878x1lye80.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203240580 10238 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2008 09:29:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:29:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 17 10:30:03 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 1JQfqT-0000Zj-KP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:30:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQfpy-0005HX-Oi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:29:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQfpt-0005E9-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:29:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQfpr-0005DH-6H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:29:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQfpr-0005DE-35 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:29:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.133]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQfpY-0006SJ-KB; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:29:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp (rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp [150.29.254.123]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id m1H9T0i9025069; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:29:01 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from smtp2.aist.go.jp by rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id m1H9T0Nw023396; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:29:00 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp2.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id m1H9T0C0017031; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:29:00 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken.m17n.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JQfpU-0001PQ-6W; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:29:00 +0900 In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:18:25 +0200) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/23.0.60 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:89321 Archived-At: In article , Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Can someone "in the know" please post an explanation of the > > > font-backend feature, and what are its advantages/disadvantages? > > > > The reason most people seem to use it (and I think just about > > _everybody_ who I've seen mention building unicode-branch or post-merge > > emacs, seems to) because they want anti-aliased fonts. > > > > Some other advantages might be better integration with modern > > client-side font mechanisms, particularly font-selection, instead of > > using the traditional (and largely regarded as "crufty") X font > > mechanism. I think the biggest advantage is the Emacs can use OTF with the font-backend mechanism. For such script as Indic, it's vital matter. > Thanks, but I also asked about disadvantages. Once the code gets stable, I think there's no disadvantage. --- Kenichi Handa handa@ni.aist.go.jp