Re: anti-aliased fonts

[dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)]

In article <87zlmptvry.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au>,
Tim X  <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
>"sashang@gmail.com" <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

Please, where do you get this thing?


David