From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian Adkins Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Nice fonts for emacs 22 GTK on Linux ? Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:15:50 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <065e64c3-28bf-40ae-b3d6-20e5b16c684c@n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202337675 28802 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2008 22:41:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:41:15 +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 Feb 06 23:41:37 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 1JMsxV-0002I5-Hc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:41:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMsx3-0006JN-4b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:41:09 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.209.204.112 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1202336151 18948 127.0.0.1 (6 Feb 2008 22:15:51 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:15:51 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.209.204.112; posting-account=Uust-woAAAAfaTc8iUxK0_NIe578kqTZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155897 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:51273 Archived-At: I've been Googling for hours, and have rebuilt emacs 22 several times, and I still can't seem to get a decent font working. I first tried the Ubuntu packages for emacs 22, but when I failed to get a readable font, I tried building from source as follows: ./configure --with-gtk --enable-font-backend --with-xft --with- freetype --with-png --with-tiff --with-jpeg make sudo make install The built-in font selection dialog (from Options | Set font) only has a few fonts to choose from, so I've been trying to set them manually as follows: emacs -r -fn "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*- *-*-*-*-*" But the fonts look all jaggedy :( I thought emacs 22 made an improvement by providing anti-aliased font capabilities - is this true? If so, how does one enable it? Some articles have stated that 22 doesn't provide this capability. Brian Adkins