From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Antialiased text on X11 Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:17:06 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20050310231530.GH3992@boetes.org> <87eke7alxt.fsf@ID-87814.user.uni-berlin.de> <877jjzah4z.fsf@ID-87814.user.uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111505354 29865 80.91.229.2 (22 Mar 2005 15:29:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:29:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 22 16:29:13 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDlDX-0003DT-BK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:22:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDlUp-0001Yn-JB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:40:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDlTa-0000xT-Cw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:39:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDlTX-0000vA-Fx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:39:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDlTW-0000qF-JZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:39:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DDl8B-0005kB-3q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:17:19 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DDl8A-0000YK-Dc; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:17:18 -0500 Original-To: Oliver Scholz In-Reply-To: <877jjzah4z.fsf@ID-87814.user.uni-berlin.de> (Oliver Scholz's message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:29:16 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) 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:34967 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34967 Oliver Scholz writes: > Stefan writes: > >>> Just one issue that might come up later. I would be grateful if >>> you'd also think about ways to customize AA per font and/or face >>> along the way; provided that this is feasible at all. >> >> AFAIK this can be controlled globally (for all Xft apps) with the >> config file (whose name escapes me just now, fonts.conf or >> somesuch). > > Ah, that could solve the issue with the aforementioned m17n fonts. > Still, if it is feasible, I'd prefer a face attribute like > :anti-aliased or somesuch. It allows for greater flexibility when > customizing the appearance of Emacs. It is completely contraproductive to demand exceptions and details before an implementation is even started. And it is the wrong point of time for the discussion, anyway, since it detracts from the release. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum