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From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
To: Taylor Venable <taylor@metasyntax.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font Problem with 23.0.92.1 - wrong font used
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:09:47 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1LufOd-000702-O5@etlken> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090417024824.GA19189@metasyntax.net> (message from Taylor Venable on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:48:24 -0400)

In article <20090417024824.GA19189@metasyntax.net>, Taylor Venable <taylor@metasyntax.net> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:43:01AM +0900, Kenichi Handa wrote:
> > I've just installed several fixes.  Could you try again?
> > 
> > Note that now xft backend can distinguish average-width font
> > property for BDF/PFC fonts.  So you should be able to see
> > the different font with these settings.

> I updated from CVS about ten hours ago and all indications are that
> this has worked.  I can now see the PCF font exactly as I expect with
> or without the Japanese font present.

Thank you for testing.

> Thanks very much!  The XFT support is great and beautiful but
> sometimes the speed in rendering of the plain old X fonts is best.

I too prefer well-designed X bitmap fonts.  So, I put `x'
font-backend higher priority as this:

(setq default-frame-alist `((font-backend . "x, xft")))

Then if the same font is provided both by X and XFT, Emacs
selects the X font.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org




  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-17  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-07  2:28 Font Problem with 23.0.92.1 - wrong font used Taylor Venable
2009-04-07  6:28 ` Kenichi Handa
     [not found]   ` <20090407084801.GC5160@metasyntax.net>
2009-04-08  2:48     ` Kenichi Handa
2009-04-08  5:02       ` Taylor Venable
2009-04-10 12:44         ` Kenichi Handa
2009-04-10 21:38           ` Taylor Venable
2009-04-13 12:41             ` Kenichi Handa
2009-04-13 17:38               ` Taylor Venable
2009-04-14  1:07                 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-04-14  3:14                   ` Taylor Venable
2009-04-14  3:49                     ` Kenichi Handa
2009-04-14 11:50                       ` Taylor Venable
2009-04-15  2:39                         ` Taylor Venable
2009-04-16  1:43                         ` Kenichi Handa
2009-04-16 14:04                           ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-17  1:01                             ` Kenichi Handa
2009-04-17  2:30                               ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-17  2:40                                 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-04-17  2:48                           ` Taylor Venable
2009-04-17  4:09                             ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2009-04-09 23:17       ` Taylor Venable

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