From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Too small fonts after Emacs-Snapshot update Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:35:58 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87k5kq4zs1.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <873ari9kh7.fsf@kamaloka.dhatu> <874pbyjd84.fsf@thievol.homelinux.org> <87lk5am65o.fsf@kamaloka.dhatu> <871w72cb70.fsf@thievol.homelinux.org> <87oda43ysc.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204098044 23219 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2008 07:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 27 08:41:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JUGuX-0005Ie-Nk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:41:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUGu1-0004pZ-KB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:40:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-post-sjc-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ij7/7MYW2tlhPH5NPg8KrQbB1dM= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 36 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156532 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51903 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 26.02.2008 um 09:30 schrieb Tim X: > >> I suspect it could be some bit of 'kruft' left over from a dist upgrade. > > > LibXft can be a problem – this is true in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger): libXft is > obviously too old here. > > Recent GNU Emacs 23.0.60 is able to use more than one font backend: X11, > Freetype, Xft: > > !Emacs.FontBackend: x > !Emacs.FontBackend: xft > !Emacs.FontBackend: ftx > > Since some days you can combine backends: > > Emacs.FontBackend: x,xft > > There can also be another source of problems: libfontconfig. It has to be > modern, too, to allow to select fonts by certain properties. > thanks Pete. Actually, my problems now appear to be hardware based. Looks like I've developed some bad memory in my system. However, the stuff you provided on specifying the font backend is very interesting and I will be experimenting to see what, if any, differences I get. Tim > -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au