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: Wed, 25 May 2005 19:05:17 +0200 Organization: les newsgroups par Wanadoo Message-ID: <4294b04c$0$809$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr> References: <429304df$0$11679$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr> <429361c1$0$25044$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: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117040956 7407 80.91.229.2 (25 May 2005 17:09:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 17:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 25 19:09:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DazME-0001BB-Bw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 19:07:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DazQ8-0000A0-6D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 13:11:52 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!193.252.118.146.MISMATCH!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: 57 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 May 2005 19:05:17 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.126.99.193 Original-X-Trace: 1117040717 news.wanadoo.fr 809 82.126.99.193:33263 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131517 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:26975 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26975 > > Has anyone ever seen antialiased font with emacs? > Me. Many times. Great news, I have hope. I have read the thorougly read this thread and I have many questions (and still no antialiased fonts !). I wish to use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono for the antialised font. I am pretty sure it is an TrueType font that can be antialiased because every file related to "bitstream" is in a ttf folder. * How to be sure a font is TrueType or bitmap? Can xfontsel of xslfont tell if a font is TrueType or Bitmap or else? I assume that if Gnome displays antialiased fonts then my X supports it. (because gtk uses XFT). * Am I right with that? With your advice, I have set the following font in .emacs (my .emacs is minimal, it only contains the following two lines): (defvar veramono "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1") (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist (cons 'font veramono)) And actually, the font looks like my default system font, except that it is not antialiased (and ugly on a lcd screen). * What did I miss ? I tried "M-x apropos: fonts" but tons of entries and several are functions unavailable on my system. (I tried M-x then "x-" and then TAB but there only x-set-selection while "M-x apropos: fonts" says there are lots of functions beginning with x-font-*) * How can I change fonts on the fly with emacs? > Or invoke C-h H and then check with C-u C-x = the > glyphs. If I type C-h H C-u C-x =, then I do get "Hello" in several langage and informations on the font used where the point is. None of those are anti aliased. * What do you mean by check the glyphs? What does it teaches me?