Re: fonts on master

[john <jpff@codemist.co.uk>]

I have tried removing all mention of that font and use whatever the defaut 
is.  It looks slightly more faint and tin but that might be an illusion.

Thank you for all your help and comments.  I willl experiment a little to 
see if i can find a fixed font that looks OK.

==John ff

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:57:13 +0000 (GMT)
>> From: john <jpff@codemist.co.uk>
>> cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> Looking around at what has changed I saw that --with-cairo was the
>> default, so I built with --without-cairo and that works as before.
>> Sorry not to be able to answer the quetsions; visual stuff is not by
>> forte and I am largely ignorant of what cairo is.
>
> We want to migrate towards Cairo, so disabling it is not the best
> solution.  By disabling it, you get an Xft build, which has known
> problems with some modern fonts, and no good solutions (since Xft
> doesn't seem to be actively maintained anymore).
>
> Let me turn the table and ask you why you need that font? is something
> wrong with the default font selected by the Cairo build?
>
>> Is thete a way of finding out wat fonr I am actually using?
>
> Yes:
>
>  M-: (face-font 'default) RET
>
>