Re: Lost antialias?

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <87lk0z1w3e.fsf@catnip.gol.com>, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Why don't we just change the default face definitions to something more
> appropriate on a modern system?

I think that is good.  For instance, when we change
variable-pitch to family "sans", fontconfig surely finds a
proper font, and by adding ("sans" "helvetica" "helv" ...)
to face-font-family-alternatives, X can also find some font.
And for fixed-pitch, "mono" is good.

> Maybe it would be also useful to support something like web-browsers
> use, where you could specify a "family" of "Dejavu Sans,Helvetica,Sans",
> and it would split the list at the commas and use the first one it could
> find.

This is a good idea in general, but for the problem of
"variable-pitch" and "fixed-pitch", I think using "sans" and
"mono" are better.

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Kenichi Handa
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