From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Anti-aliased fonts support ?
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 15:45:50 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvn04lmuoh.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3644.1083829390.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> There's a patch to add libxft support to Emacs, but the last time I
> tried it, it was still quite unpolished[*].
Right it is still work-in-progress and hasn't seen much progres in
a while now. The Arch branch is authoritative AFAIK.
> [*] Indeed, for me it barely worked at all, even with lots of fiddling.
> However from the author's screenshot I gather he had better luck,
> so I guess it probably depends on what fonts you have installed, etc.
Last time I talked to the guy he said that he hasn't implemented the
font-selection part of the code, only the display so you get a hard-coded
helvetica and that's it. Also there were a few display glitches when
I tried it.
I'd love to see this work developed further.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-06 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-05 23:32 Anti-aliased fonts support ? Xavier Maillard
2004-05-06 7:10 ` Miles Bader
[not found] ` <mailman.3644.1083829390.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-05-06 11:56 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-06 12:30 ` Xavier Maillard
2004-05-06 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-05-06 17:03 ` Xavier Maillard
2004-05-06 17:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-06 18:09 ` Xavier Maillard
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