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From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Subject: Re: ttf can't work on GNU Emacs(X-window)?
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:00:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3irx64yhi.fsf@lugabout.cloos.reno.nv.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877jdnn2y7.fsf@buug.org> (Ian Zimmerman's message of "11 Sep 2005 09:34:08 -0400")

>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> writes:

>> Is there any way to anti alias the font?

Stefan> It's being worked on.  Check out the XFT_JHD_BRANCH in
Stefan> Emacs-CVS if you're courageous enough.

On that front, the last I tried it still didn't support changing the
display font, and the font specified on the command line was only
used for latin1; everything else fell back to Sans-12.  It also had
problems keeping each buffer's text within said buffer's borders.

Ian> I hope it is still possible to use bitmapped fonts bypassing xft.
Ian> I like my Emacs font the way it is.

Fontconfig (and therefore both Xft and cairo) supports any font
freetype supports, including bdf, pcf{,.gz} and other bitmap formats.

So, even when using client-side fonts you'll be able to use the bitmap
fonts you currently do.

In addition, it is highly unlikely that Emacs itself will abandon
support for server-side fonts.  Cross-platform support is just too
inherent in its design principles.  

-JimC
-- 
James H. Cloos, Jr. <cloos@jhcloos.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-12  6:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-08  5:46 ttf can't work on GNU Emacs(X-window)? Richie
2005-09-08  8:54 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.6262.1126170654.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-08 11:39   ` Richie
2005-09-09  4:45     ` Stefan Monnier
2005-09-09 10:24       ` Richie
2005-09-09 13:22         ` Stefan Monnier
2005-09-11 13:34       ` Ian Zimmerman
2005-09-12  6:00         ` James Cloos [this message]
     [not found]   ` <1126180306.543073.89850@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
2005-09-08 12:18     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]       ` <f1ba81f0050908053499f88e5@mail.gmail.com>
2005-09-08 13:18         ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]         ` <mailman.6281.1126185875.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-08 14:16           ` Richie
2005-09-08 14:33       ` Henrik Enberg
2005-09-08 15:20         ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]       ` <mailman.6288.1126191114.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-08 16:06         ` Richie

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