From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: When and how to register various font backends
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 17:54:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vz15zp86rbn.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83blz0xsu5.fsf@gnu.org
On Fri 14 Jun 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I'm not sure removing x (and gdi on Windows) is a good idea, even in
> Emacs 28. I understand (more accurately, was told very recently) that
> HarfBuzz was designed to be able to work with any font, not just OTF,
> but I'm not sure our integration of HarfBuzz allows that. We should
> actively test that with old fonts, like bitmapped fonts and BDF,
> before we make the decision. For example, I suspect the methods we
> currently use for finding fonts suitable for HarfBuzz filter out
> non-OTF fonts (at least on Windows, this is definitely so).
A quick test using the "System" font on Windows confirms that:
gdi:-raster-System-bold-normal-normal-sans-16-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
AndyM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-14 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-07 19:40 When and how to register various font backends Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-14 9:14 ` Robert Pluim
2019-06-14 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-14 13:16 ` Robert Pluim
2019-06-14 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-15 9:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-17 3:03 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2019-06-17 9:41 ` Robert Pluim
2019-06-17 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-18 1:29 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2019-06-18 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-18 23:21 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2019-06-19 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-14 16:54 ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2019-06-14 10:52 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2019-06-14 11:52 ` Robert Pluim
2019-06-14 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-14 13:24 ` Robert Pluim
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