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: anti-aliased fonts Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:37:37 +1000 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87zlmptvry.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <57f3ff42-1555-487a-b521-4a38429a53fc@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220435924 1498 80.91.229.12 (3 Sep 2008 09:58:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:58:44 +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 Sep 03 11:59:39 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 1Kap9G-0000js-DY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:59:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35680 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kap8G-0006J0-Vn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:58:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.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: sha1:2tdeWIcHC6CmdZ+bFZvnI3mrlug= Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ea9cf107.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=\lFUNC[3eXd]`e1HJ8=:?`L?0kYOcDh@jIGb]mONgOij9jMSI8HST^nY:LMn= 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:57208 Archived-At: "sashang@gmail.com" writes: > Hi > > Is there support for anti-aliased fonts in emacs? I installed emacs a > few days ago and tried to use it but found that the fonts were > rendered poorly. Some searching of the net revealed that I had to get > a special snapshot installed (apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk) to > get anti-aliased fonts. I find this surprising considering that it's > 2008 and every other application I use supports anti-aliased fonts. What you are after has been introduced only in the CVS branch of emacs. I run the CVS version daily and its very stable most of the time. The emacs-snapshot is a recent snapshot of the CVS head and works well. None of the stable e.g. released versions of emacs prior to the 23 CVS branch have anti-aliased font support. The new CVS version has a lot of nice new enhancements that are really catching emacs up to what most would expect from the worlds greatest editor, including - * Improved support for UTF-8 and other character sets * Anti-aliased fonts and support for better font handling using xft, otf and n17m * Support for dbus * User friendly interface to GNU PG * Some new useful packages, such as org-mode, nxml-mode, etc * A dired like mode for viewing processes in a similar way to * top * enhanced line wrapping options and more options in the option window to do things like set the default font * New completions and screen centering/moving features * Improved TRAMP and lots more. Going on history, it will probably be a while before version 23 is released as the next stable version. However, as already mentioned, I find it stable enough to use daily at work and home. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au