From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill O'Connor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Nice fonts for emacs 22 GTK on Linux ? Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:50:52 -0500 Message-ID: <873as5u2b7.fsf@t22.Belkin> References: <065e64c3-28bf-40ae-b3d6-20e5b16c684c@n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202338385 31078 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2008 22:53:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:53:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Brian Adkins Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 06 23:53:27 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 1JMt8v-0006m5-EP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:53:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMt8T-0004Qw-30 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:52:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JMt8D-0004Qo-Id for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:52:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JMt8C-0004QG-35 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:52:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMt8B-0004QD-SK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:52:39 -0500 Original-Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com ([64.233.178.246] helo=hs-out-2122.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JMt8B-0002JY-9C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:52:39 -0500 Original-Received: by hs-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id j58so2352608hsj.10 for ; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:52:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=Fk7s1OqpYa1PK2cVkvXdw+HhL8YT6jUpGXPhqki98Dk=; b=drHI8/bEpZQbEa0oIGAlC2t6KBT6RFvgkFdXZtr77dJg+BYbvU0rP304dE2yAOtORWy9hpFxQcPElljXdMUANS+6Gqx3IYtKIMBbr6G8BcAe8qBIhwyoYNiS4rzbGCQfafLcEEfDKgizut5xK4YTKkfsBrM8TbAE7LEeBOqMmjA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=BGMgWuiE3yKUBb48YeK5iqAMk3PRZQKqixLOawhi/vKRzN09PSz9os94rN+P8vDndbBu9hoedyq0Bmk02slDadR9iC7dRmW4yGkL6F+HAcOw5JkToio990LlKnVGI+9fWkvL7j2piqip0Ea+TvgDlpQX8tpkvJKtqWIwbAcCpSU= Original-Received: by 10.100.126.19 with SMTP id y19mr4999129anc.45.1202338357504; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:52:37 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from t22.Belkin ( [68.175.79.248]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b19sm19722222ana.18.2008.02.06.14.52.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:52:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <065e64c3-28bf-40ae-b3d6-20e5b16c684c@n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> (Brian Adkins's message of "Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:15:50 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:51275 Archived-At: Brian Adkins writes: > 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 I used this branch: cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co -r emacs-unicode-2 emacs Details here: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs