From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: font-backend
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:12:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B7199B.4070702@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uodahkpjy.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Thanks, but I also asked about disadvantages. TANSTAAFL, and I
> believe this case is no exception.
>
It has had about 15 years less testing.
It is noticably slower on Windows (not sure about other platforms)
There is no BDF font support on Windows (yet - it will be a cleaner
implementation though, with a separate backend)
>
>> I dunno if any of that applies to Eli, if he uses windows.
>>
>
> Why would this be any different on Windows?
>
The antialiasing advantage does not apply to Windows, since antialiasing
does not depend on the APIs used for drawing text.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-16 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-15 0:43 23.0.60;show-paren-mode causes abnormal vertical lines on Win32 =?gb18030?B?0+G94A==?=
2008-02-15 9:12 ` 23.0.60; show-paren-mode " Jason Rumney
2008-02-15 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-15 21:44 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-15 23:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-15 23:16 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-15 23:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-15 23:31 ` font-backend [was Re: 23.0.60; show-paren-mode causes abnormal vertical lines on Win32.] Glenn Morris
2008-02-15 23:47 ` font-backend Miles Bader
2008-02-16 13:18 ` font-backend Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-16 13:27 ` font-backend Miles Bader
2008-02-16 17:12 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2008-02-17 9:29 ` font-backend Kenichi Handa
2008-02-22 14:00 ` font-backend finalpatch
2008-02-22 16:43 ` font-backend Stefan Monnier
2008-02-23 0:15 ` font-backend Feng Li
2008-02-23 0:25 ` font-backend YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-02-23 2:23 ` font-backend Jason Rumney
2008-02-23 2:44 ` font-backend YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-02-24 15:24 ` font-backend Jason Rumney
2008-02-25 10:03 ` font-backend finalpatch
2008-02-23 2:28 ` font-backend Jason Rumney
2008-02-23 2:38 ` font-backend Feng Li
2008-02-16 3:08 ` 23.0.60; show-paren-mode causes abnormal vertical lines on Win32 Stefan Monnier
2008-02-16 6:01 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-19 15:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-19 20:44 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-17 13:22 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <42b562540802150241wb2d1b66n2f0b50b6c9bbca36@mail.gmail.com>
2008-02-15 23:10 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-15 23:15 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-17 4:57 ` yu jie
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