Re: Lost antialias?

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <48546807.8010406@alice.it>, Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it> writes:

> I have tried also on Cygwin[1], and the result is different.

> On Cygwin I have /.Xdefauls:

> Emacs.FontBackend:      xft
> Emacs.font:             Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-14

> Xft*antialias: true
> Xft*autohint: true

> The look is fine (better?), but the height is 13 not 14.

The font size problem is because of the bug introduced by
gtk-style fontname parser as I wrote in the previous mail.

And I think "fine" means you have antialise font, then
perhaps it's because you use xft backend only.

> On GNU/Linux Kubuntu 8.04 the result is still 'horrible' with "DejaVu 
> Sans Mono-12" and "BitStream Vera Sans Mono", but is fine with 
> "Monospace-12".

> On Kubuntu I do not use /.Xdefaults but I start Emacs as

> emacs23 --font "DejaVu Sans Mono-12" &

I see.  So, you have "dejavu sans mono" font both by X and
Xft backend.  And, as I recently changed the font selector
to prefer a font supplied by a backend of higher priority
(the default order is x,xft on X Window System), you get
"dejavu sans mono" via X backend.  When you specify
"monospace" instead, X backend doesn't know about it, but
xft backend knows that it's a generic family name, and your
system assignes "dejavu sans mono" to it.  Thus you get
antialias font via xft backend.

If you never want "dejavu sans mono" font as a X font, just
remove it from your font-path.

Or, set X resource as 'Emacs*FontBackend: xft, x'.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp