Re: Non-default fonts in Emacs using Xft

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 30.06.2007 um 15:28 schrieb Felix Eckhofer:

> I've been playing a little with Emacs from the unicode-2 branch.
> However I cannot get it to render non-default-sized fonts with
> antialiasing, for examples headlines in auctex show up like this:
> http://secundus.stunet.tu-freiberg.de/~felix/temp/screenshots/emacs- 
> xft.png

Are you sure that your GNU Emacs 23 was configured and compiled to  
achieve font anti-aliasing? (Trying to report a bug you can retrieve  
some information on this.)

>
> Is there some sort of "global font parameter" I have not found? I  
> tried
> set-default-font and set-fontset-font as suggest on emacswiki.org but
> nothing seems to help.

I think there is none, except: on the command line you need to add -- 
enable-font-backend. You also need to prepare your system with  
fontconfig. It uses (an) XML file(s) to mention all directories with  
fonts, name substitutes, define standards ... When I try to launch  
GNU Emacs 23 with activated font backend I get an error – I think  
it's really time for a bug report!


BTW, you don't need to write your LaTeX documents in UTF-8 using  
LaTeX's incomplete UTF-8 support. ISO 8859-9 would be sufficient:

	%% -*- mode: LaTeX; coding: iso-8859-15; -*-	either this header line  
or the Local Variables section at the end
	\usepackage{ifpdf}
	\ifpdf
	   \immediate\write16{\jobname: Bonjour, PDF!}
	   \usepackage{cmap}
	   \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
	%   \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.png,.gif,.tif,.jpeg}	% what  
about .svg ?
	   \usepackage[activate={true,nocompatibility}]{microtype}
	\else		% for non-pdfTeX
	   \immediate\write16{¡Hola \jobname: DVI!}
	%   \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps,.ps}
	   \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
	   \usepackage[protrusion=true,expansion=false]{microtype}
	\fi
	\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
	%\usepackage{lmodern}
	\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
	\usepackage[full]{textcomp}
	\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
	
	
	%%% Local Variables:
	%%% mode: LaTeX
	%%% coding: iso-8859-15
	%%% TeX-master: t
	%%% TeX-command-default: "possible script"
	%%% End:

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   Pete

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