From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: master d8da850: Document cairo-related fallout to font-backend settings
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 22:50:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2v9p5re58.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=9s1O8aKiGEE-KU=AV99zHBLJUAODVEtNax0MHDYoFoA@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Mon, 20 Jan 2020 22:05:23 +0100")
>>>>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 22:05:23 +0100, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> said:
Stefan> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>> +Note also that 'FontBackend' settings in .Xdefaults or .Xresources, or
>> +'font-backend' frame parameter settings in your init files, may need
>> +to be adjusted, as 'xft' is no longer a valid backend when using
>> +Cairo. Use either 'ftcr' or 'ftcrhb' instead for FreeType and
>> +FreeType + HarfBuzz respectively. 'x' is still a valid backend.
Stefan> Should we say that FreeType + Harfbuzz is probably the correct choice
Stefan> for most users, and perhaps also why? My concern is that people might
Stefan> default to the shorter option and we could see unnecessary bug reports
Stefan> about incorrect composition, etc.
The correct choice depends on how their Emacs has been built; ftcr and
ftcrhb are mutually exclusive [1](see my earlier update to the elisp
manual). I guess we could say something like this:
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 6cc392970f..55cf59283c 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ your font settings.
Note also that 'FontBackend' settings in .Xdefaults or .Xresources, or
'font-backend' frame parameter settings in your init files, may need
to be adjusted, as 'xft' is no longer a valid backend when using
-Cairo. Use either 'ftcr' or 'ftcrhb' instead for FreeType and
-FreeType + HarfBuzz respectively. 'x' is still a valid backend.
-
+Cairo. Use 'ftcrhb' if your Emacs was built with HarfBuzz support,
+and 'ftcr' otherwise. You can this determine by checking
+'system-configuration-features'. 'x' is still a valid backend.
---
** The ftx font backend driver has been removed.
Footnotes:
[1] My master plan to remove as many different variations as possible
seems to get shot down every time I suggest it :-)
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[not found] ` <20200120162050.08A5421148@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-01-20 21:05 ` master d8da850: Document cairo-related fallout to font-backend settings Stefan Kangas
2020-01-20 21:50 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-01-20 23:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-21 7:44 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-21 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-21 15:39 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-21 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-22 7:22 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-22 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-22 16:11 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-22 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-22 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-22 16:59 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-22 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-21 14:54 ` T.V Raman
2020-01-21 15:38 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-21 16:54 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-21 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
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