bug#28222: [PATCH] Use thin font smoothing in macOS

[Ben Bonfil <bonfil@gmail.com>]

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> Have you submitted code to Emacs before?

I haven't, but I don't mind signing the relevant documents, if you conclude
that it is necessary.

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 06:58:51PM +0200, Ben Bonfil wrote:
> > The way I see it, this is analogous to the existing ns-antialias-text
> flag,
> > which is another rendering preference that can be changed system-wide,
> yet
> > is available within Emacs.
> > I would say that the use of these options is sometimes beneficial, based
> on
> > one's choice of fonts.
> > For example, if you use a bitmap font in Emacs, you would likely disable
> > anti-aliasing, but you wouldn't necessarily do it system-wide.
> >
> > (I don't really know how to turn on thin smoothing system-wide, but
> that's
> > not the main argument)
>
> After a deal of messing about I’ve found that while you can set
> ‘smoothing’ options system wide, they seem to be slightly different
> from what we’re looking at here.
>
> Have you submitted code to Emacs before?
>
> Can someone advise: I’ve added a few bits and pieces of boilerplate to
> make this patch build on all supported macOS versions, but it’s
> pushing it up to 15 lines. Is that going to be a problem?
> --
> Alan Third
>

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