From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Wilco Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: antialiased fonts Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 19:17:53 +0200 Organization: les newsgroups par Wanadoo Message-ID: <429361c1$0$25044$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr> References: <429304df$0$11679$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116955197 6564 80.91.229.2 (24 May 2005 17:19:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:19:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 19:19:47 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dad15-0000vC-Qe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:16:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dad4m-0001FI-Rb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 13:20:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!proxad.net!freenix!news.wanadoo.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 May 2005 19:17:53 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.126.102.236 Original-X-Trace: 1116955073 news.wanadoo.fr 25044 82.126.102.236:32890 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131499 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:26956 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26956 Has anyone ever seen antialiased font with emacs? (correlary question : Was I drunk when I saw that with a Mandrake distrib?) >>I don't get it, why gnome-terminal can do it and emacs can't? > > > gnome-terminal was written to use GTK for rendering, which in turn > uses the X11 extension APIs for directly drawing antialiased fonts. > Emacs was written to use the plain X11 text drawing API, which does > not support antialiasing. I googled a bit more, are you talking about xft for the X11 API? >>What does it takes to make a gtk-aware emacs à la gvim? > There are various degrees of GTK awareness. The current CVS, which > will someday be Emacs 22 has GTK widgets (menus, scrollbars etc), but > does not yet use GTK for drawing the text, since that is a much bigger > job requiring a complete fork of the display engine. >> What does it takes to make a gtk-aware emacs à la gvim? >Get it from CVS, configure it --with-gtk, compile and install it yourself. If I follow the precedent post, my emacs would then be gtk-aware but still I would have unaliased fonts. Is that it?