Latin characters not antialiased in CVS emacs

Latin characters not antialiased in CVS emacs

[cube15]

I've been searching all day long for this on the net and I'm not even getting
close to solving it. It's as a matter of fact the first Linux problem which
I decided to describe on a forum.

I've compiled emacs from CVS, because I wanted the fonts antialiased in X.
Here are the arguments which i passed to ./configure:
./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk --enable-font-backend --with-xft
--with-freetype

During the compilation I had to switch emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el to
it's previous version (it refused to make bootstrap):
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el?root=emacs&r1=1.109&r2=1.110

After that emacs compiled flawlessy.

Now everything seems cool, but Polish diacritic signs aren't antialiased. It
seems like emacs is using another font to display them.

In my .emacs I have only this:
(set-default-font "monospace-10")

Here's a screenshot:
http://flickr.com/photos/19161668@N06/2307456983/sizes/o/

I wonder if someone could help me with this. I found that I should put this
into .emacs:
(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'latin '("monospace" ."unicode-bmp"))
Of course it didn't work. I also tried:
(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'latin-iso8859-2 '("monospace"
."unicode-bmp"))
and several other variations.

What is interesting, I also didn't have the euro sign antialiased but after
puting
(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'gb18030 '("monospace". "unicode-bmp"))
into my .emacs file emacs started to show it antialiased.

I'm a little bit confused with this and I would really appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance ;)
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Re: Latin characters not antialiased in CVS emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 04.03.2008 um 15:31 schrieb cube15:

> Now everything seems cool, but Polish diacritic signs aren't  
> antialiased. It
> seems like emacs is using another font to display them.


This is usual behaviour. Although (only) *some* fonts stretch from  
some glyph to another glyph without gap GNU Emacs sub-divides this  
range into charsets, see for example charset-script-alist or char- 
script-table. So it can use either this or either that font. This  
behaviour is IMO *regular* in the initial (the first) frame. This one  
is set up for me with a bit-mapped font, while the default frames  
will use a scalable TrueType font. In order to prevent this font  
switching you would need to set up a fontset that sets a font for all  
charsets/encodings ...

In any case you can position the mouse cursor on a glyph and type C-u  
C-x =. In *Help* buffer you'll see a description. Now repeat for the  
other glyph. The *Help* buffer has hyper-link button [forward] and  
[back] – so you better do *not* kill the *Help* buffer.

You can also invoke 'M-x describe-fontset RET RET'. The output is not  
that easily to understand.

Which Emacs.FontBackend X resource are you using?

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Re: Latin characters not antialiased in CVS emacs

[cube15]

This is a little embarrassing, but everything turned OK after reboot. Maybe
it has sth. to do with defoma. Most importantly it works.
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