From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: anti-aliased fonts Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:14:53 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <57f3ff42-1555-487a-b521-4a38429a53fc@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <87zlmptvry.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221432087 29192 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2008 22:41:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:41:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 15 00:42:24 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kf0IR-0001B2-60 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:42:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58938 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kf0HQ-0000HP-J4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:41:20 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 51 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1221430493 23270 166.84.1.1 (14 Sep 2008 22:14:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:14:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162250 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57593 Archived-At: In article <87zlmptvry.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au>, Tim X wrote: >"sashang@gmail.com" writes: > >> Hi >> >> Is there support for anti-aliased fonts in emacs? I installed emacs a >> few days ago and tried to use it but found that the fonts were >> rendered poorly. Some searching of the net revealed that I had to get >> a special snapshot installed (apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk) to >> get anti-aliased fonts. I find this surprising considering that it's >> 2008 and every other application I use supports anti-aliased fonts. > >What you are after has been introduced only in the CVS branch of >emacs. I run the CVS version daily and its very stable most of the >time. The emacs-snapshot is a recent snapshot of the CVS head and works >well. None of the stable e.g. released versions of emacs prior to the 23 >CVS branch have anti-aliased font support. > >The new CVS version has a lot of nice new enhancements that are really >catching emacs up to what most would expect from the worlds greatest >editor, including - > > * Improved support for UTF-8 and other character sets > * Anti-aliased fonts and support for better font handling using > xft, otf and n17m > * Support for dbus > * User friendly interface to GNU PG > * Some new useful packages, such as org-mode, nxml-mode, etc > * A dired like mode for viewing processes in a similar way to > * top > * enhanced line wrapping options and more options in the option > window to do things like set the default font > * New completions and screen centering/moving features > * Improved TRAMP > >and lots more. Going on history, it will probably be a while before >version 23 is released as the next stable version. However, as already >mentioned, I find it stable enough to use daily at work and home. > >Tim > >-- >tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au Please, where do you get this thing? David