From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Eure Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: anti-aliased fonts Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:08:33 -0700 Message-ID: References: <57f3ff42-1555-487a-b521-4a38429a53fc@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <86hc8x3swf.fsf@timbral.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v928.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220494144 2918 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2008 02:09:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 02:09:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Evans Winner Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 04 04:09:59 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 1Kb4IG-0004JK-V6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:09:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45799 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb4HH-0001gn-Of for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:08:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb4Gx-0001eR-U5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45837 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb4Gx-0001db-AW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.digg.com ([64.191.203.36]:54339) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kb4Gx-0004Y3-6N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.digg.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FCFFA85C28; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:08:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Score: 2.269 Original-Received: from mail.digg.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.digg.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5ZLzeK9z4U-X; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:08:34 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.100] (adsl-69-104-3-181.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [69.104.3.181]) by mail.digg.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8798A85C0D; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:08:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <86hc8x3swf.fsf@timbral.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.928.1) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:57246 Archived-At: On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Evans Winner wrote: > Ian Eure writes: > > I don't use Linux anymore, but I'd expect that recent > Emacs packages support AA fine. > > Just out of curiosity... what do you use? > Mac OS X. Aquamacs and Carbon Emacs both support antialiased fonts. > In any case, I have been compiling Emacs from CVS on various > flavors of GNU/Linux for at least a couple of years now. On > a very few occasions I have had a problem, but in every case > I just don't do `make install' and wait a few days and the > problem gets fixed. By and large it does work with no > problems. I don't know how easy it is to compile Emacs on > MS Windows, but Lennart Borgman's EmacsW32 package is > pre-compiled and is a version 23 compile. > It's pretty straightforward on OS X, too. I've compiled a few 22.x nightlies to track down some freezing bugs lately.