On 12/29/11 8:57 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:21:08 +0100
>> Cc: 10399-done@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 15:06, Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> wrote:
>>
>>> -driver) and @code{xft} (the Xft font driver).  On other systems, there
>>> +driver) and @code{xft} (the Xft font driver).  On Windows, there
>>> +are currently two available font backends: @code{gdi} and
>>> +@code{uniscribe}.
>>> +On other systems, there
>>
>> Committed, thanks.
> 
> Please add there an @xref to "(emacs)Windows Fonts", where there are
> more details about that.

Doing that makes sense.

Since we're on the subject of Windows font backends: is it worth
creating a DirectWrite backend? It does a better job of inter-character
spacing and rendering at small sizes than Uniscribe does.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517642

https://blog.mozilla.com/nattokirai/2009/10/22/better-postscript-cff-font-rendering-with-directwrite/