From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: unicode font-backend + tiling Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:16:14 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87ejrffa4k.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165295732 25382 80.91.229.10 (5 Dec 2006 05:15:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 05:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 05 06:15:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GrSeL-0001G4-Gu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:15:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GrSeK-0002Ls-UI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:15:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GrSe9-0002Lf-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:15:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GrSe7-0002LF-Ul for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:15:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GrSe7-0002LB-LZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:15:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [150.29.246.133] (helo=mx1.aist.go.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GrSe4-0003rs-54; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:15:08 -0500 Original-Received: from rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp (rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp [150.29.254.123]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id kB55F1X0007469; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:15:02 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from smtp2.aist.go.jp by rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id kB55F1kF016521; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:15:01 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp2.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id kB55F1Tu028522; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:15:01 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken.m17n.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrSf8-0000Zq-5y; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:16:14 +0900 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:42:54 +0900) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/22.0.91 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:63295 Archived-At: In article , Miles Bader writes: > Kenichi Handa writes: > > It's quite easy to display characters without aa > > (anti-aliasing), but the problem is how we specify aa or > > non-aa for a specific set of characters/fonts. We may want > > aa even for Chinese characters if the font size is smaller > > than some threshold. So, we must design a flexible > > interface that can be controlled by users. > Couldn't Emacs, by default at least, just let xft/freetype/whatever > decide? Perhaps possible for xft backend. I've just installed a change for that. > I was under the impression that other apps just did that, and > it seems to work well (roman letters use aa, cjk doesn't use aa at > "normal" sizes, but _does_ at big sizes). I've thought that aa is useful for small sizes. --- Kenichi Handa handa@m17n.org