From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ali Ijaz Sheikh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Antialiased text on X11 Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:21:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20050310231530.GH3992@boetes.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111182232 25163 80.91.229.2 (18 Mar 2005 21:43:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:43:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 18 22:43:52 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCPG0-0008PW-RH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:43:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCPWZ-0004Di-RK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:00:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCPVo-0004C7-2J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:00:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCPVk-0004AF-0W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:00:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCPVj-0004A5-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:00:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DCPEE-0001Wy-DT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:41:58 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DCPCQ-00083U-LQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:40:06 +0100 Original-Received: from fw54.torolab.ibm.com ([199.246.40.54]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:40:06 +0100 Original-Received: from ali by fw54.torolab.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:40:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: fw54.torolab.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050111) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20050310231530.GH3992@boetes.org> 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34748 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34748 Han Boetes wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>A Cairo port will probably make sense at some point, but I think that >>anti-aliasing support for X11 (using xft) is more urgent. > > > A lot of people _think_ they need AA support. Until I tell them about > the terminus-font that is. :-) I think that is a generalization; and a matter of opinion. I have tried the terminus font; and atleast a hundred other fonts. The fact of the matter is that anti-aliased fonts specially on LCD screens look much better than non-antialiased fonts. Its rather sad that I have to use xemacs on windows (such a heresy) in order to have my fonts antialised. Ali