From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: john Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: fonts on master Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:12:02 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <3767-Tue14Jan2020154638+0000-jpff@codemist.co.uk> <838sma57xm.fsf@gnu.org> <8336ch6cnl.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="266456"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 14 21:13:05 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1irSYj-0016ua-16 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:13:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45520 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1irSYh-0004W0-V9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:13:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43575) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1irSYC-0003yq-Oe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:12:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1irSY9-0001EP-6f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:12:32 -0500 Original-Received: from codemist.co.uk ([217.155.197.248]:47432) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1irSY4-00017H-Hh; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:12:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [172.16.4.42] (helo=snout.codemist.co.uk) by codemist.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1irSY2-0000sT-Mb; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:12:22 +0000 In-Reply-To: <8336ch6cnl.fsf@gnu.org> X-ACL-Warn: No reverse lookup X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 217.155.197.248 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:244261 Archived-At: 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 >> 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 > >