From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johan Kullstam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Antialiasing in Emacs? Date: 21 Feb 2003 14:46:33 -0500 Organization: Raytheon Company Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87fzqhto12.fsf@sysengr.res.ray.com> References: <20030221115623.23354.00000027@mb-bk.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045857080 5618 80.91.224.249 (21 Feb 2003 19:51:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:51:20 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18mJBj-0001Pu-00 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:50:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mJBl-0003MD-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:50:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.infoave.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 138.125.142.46 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com Original-X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1045856793 138.125.142.46 (Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:46:33 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:46:33 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110501 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7003 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7003 David Kastrup writes: > wojunker@aol.com (WoJunker) writes: > > > I am using Emacs under Linux Redhat 8.0. Usually, all texts on the > > screen of my computer are automatically subjected to antialiasing to > > make them smoothly readable. The only exception so far is Emacs, > > which produces non-antialiased text that is rather inconvenient to > > read. How can I configure Emacs to support antialiasing? > > You can't. So use a readable font. I have > > Emacs.font: 10x20 > > in my .Xdefaults file (might also be .Xresources, I have one linked to > the other), and that looks pretty much ok. I like the gnu intl fonts. -etl-fixed-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" Why these fonts are not included in every linux distro I do not know. -- Johan KULLSTAM sysengr