From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: unicode font-backend + tiling Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:42:54 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87ejrffa4k.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165293815 21602 80.91.229.10 (5 Dec 2006 04:43:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 04:43:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Leo , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 05 05:43:33 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 1GrS9T-0007At-Et for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:43:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GrS9S-0007Dn-R4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:43:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GrS9G-0007BH-3J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:43:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GrS9D-00079C-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:43:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GrS9D-000799-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:43:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [210.143.35.52] (helo=tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GrS9A-0007dy-LS; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:43:13 -0500 Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.50]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kB54gqMD005292; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:42:55 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:42:55 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.97.235] [10.114.97.235]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:42:55 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 1C1B2425; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:42:54 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Kenichi Handa System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Kenichi Handa's message of "Tue\, 05 Dec 2006 13\:30\:00 +0900") Original-Lines: 19 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:63291 Archived-At: 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? 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). Sorry if the above doesn't make much sense ... :-) -Miles -- The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete. [Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964]