From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Cloos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The WHY of Xft Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:12:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111422464 21356 80.91.229.2 (21 Mar 2005 16:27:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:27:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 21 17:27:44 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDPck-0007rp-GC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:19:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDPtr-0002r8-Tu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:37:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDPsd-00021o-HT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:35:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDPsa-00020D-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:35:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDPsa-0001zN-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:35:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.240.156.239] (helo=ore.jhcloos.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DDPWT-0006L9-HE; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:12:57 -0500 Original-Received: from lugabout.jhcloos.org (host-69-48-10-151.roc.choiceone.net [69.48.10.151]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "lugabout.jhcloos.org", Issuer "ca.jhcloos.com" (verified OK)) by ore.jhcloos.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128E91C36A; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:12:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by lugabout.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id CD97A4D42D2; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:12:26 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:30:55 +0900") X-Hashcash: 0:050321:snogglethorpe@gmail.com:1b682ab84442fa39 X-Hashcash: 0:050321:miles@gnu.org:07972c422464fa60 X-Hashcash: 0:050321:emacs-devel@gnu.org:af9364124cfd02c1 Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34895 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34895 >>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader writes: Miles> I think this is not true -- it seems to be exactly this Miles> behavior which -deferglyphs stops. I’ve now found deferglyphs in Xserver(1). As I said, it is new to me, but it does seem to address that one issue. Miles> Can xft still use bitmap fonts? Xft can use anything freetype can render, including at least bdf, pcf and sfnt bitmaps. -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr.