how to promote the new font backend?

how to promote the new font backend?

[joakim]

Recently I reinstalled my primary workstation with fc9. I noticed lots
of weird font issues with emacs.

In the end it occured to me that I hadnt moved this line to my new
.Xdefaults file:

Emacs.font:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=14

This means, I suppose, that new emacs users will encounter the same
issues. How do we provide nice font defaults for new users?

-- 
Joakim Verona

Re: how to promote the new font backend?

[Jason Rumney]

joakim@verona.se wrote:
> Recently I reinstalled my primary workstation with fc9. I noticed lots
> of weird font issues with emacs.
>   

What kinds of issues? They might indicate a bug.

> How do we provide nice font defaults for new users?
>   

The default font if XFT is configured is monospace-12. Most fontconfig 
installations will map this to a modern font capable of using 
antialiasing. Does your installation fail to map it, or map it to a 
bitmap font?

Re: how to promote the new font backend?

[joakim]

Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:

> joakim@verona.se wrote:
>> Recently I reinstalled my primary workstation with fc9. I noticed lots
>> of weird font issues with emacs.
>>   
>
> What kinds of issues? They might indicate a bug.

- I wasnt able to increase the fontsize beyond a certain limit using
  incdec-buffer-face-height.

- reading mail in gnus, certain characters became octal escapes rather
  than the swedish characters I'm used to seeing.  
  

>
>> How do we provide nice font defaults for new users?
>>   
>
> The default font if XFT is configured is monospace-12. Most fontconfig
> installations will map this to a modern font capable of using
> antialiasing. Does your installation fail to map it, or map it to a
> bitmap font?
>
-- 
Joakim Verona

Re: how to promote the new font backend?

[Miles Bader]

joakim@verona.se writes:
>> What kinds of issues? They might indicate a bug.
>
> - I wasnt able to increase the fontsize beyond a certain limit using
>   incdec-buffer-face-height.
>
> - reading mail in gnus, certain characters became octal escapes rather
>   than the swedish characters I'm used to seeing.  

It certainly sounds like something's messed up (using the default
settings here, I can magnify the text until a single character occupies
the entire window)...

Does it still happen with emacs -Q?

When you position the cursor on one of the characters (both normal and
"magnified") and use `C-u C-x =', what font does it say it's using?

-Miles

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