From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Subject: Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?
Date: 18 Apr 2003 10:55:47 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buobrz4po0s.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ladepm442.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu>
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> writes:
> I'm pretty happy with my 6x13 fixed font, so I'm not going to spend
> my time on anti-aliasing although I agree it would be nice to have.
While current GTK2/FT2 font anti-aliasing looks great for typical
variable-width fonts, places where it gets used for fixed-width fonts
(e.g., gnome-terminal) look notably worse to me than versions using
non-anti-aliased fonts.
I'm not entirely sure why this is; some possibilities that come to mind:
(1) FT2 doesn't render these fonts* well for some reason
(2) They aren't hinted well (though at least Andale Mono seems hinted
quite well actually)
(3) Something about the usage of fixed-width fonts makes the artifacts
of anti-aliasing (e.g. occasional fuzzy edges and uneven brightness)
more objectionable than with variable-width fonts
(4) I think I tend to use fixed-width fonts at smaller point sizes,
as the number of columns visible often matters more with them,
and anti-aliasing tends to look pretty bad at such point sizes
(5) ?
* `These fonts' being the fixed-width fonts usable with FT2 on my
system, e.g., Luxi Mono, Kochi Gothic, various versions of Courier,
Andale Mono.
-Miles
--
A zen-buddhist walked into a pizza shop and
said, "Make me one with everything."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-18 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-17 12:44 GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1? D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 13:54 ` David Kastrup
2003-04-17 14:12 ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-17 15:13 ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 17:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-17 17:50 ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-17 20:10 ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-18 1:55 ` Miles Bader [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.4838.1050631104.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-18 3:02 ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 16:54 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-17 17:19 ` David Kastrup
2003-04-17 17:34 ` Glenn Morris
2003-04-17 17:39 ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 20:32 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-18 16:14 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-04-24 14:01 ` d2003xx
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