From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Cc: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cairo now default?
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:45:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wo9ahcqq.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3mua7z6qc.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org> (James Cloos's message of "Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:06:03 -0500")
>>>>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:06:03 -0500, James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> said:
>>>>> "RP" == Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
RP> Why? Xft and Cairo should have the same font support, apart from
RP> bitmap fonts. Only people who've messed with font-backend might have
RP> issues, and there should be not be too many of those.
James> Are you certasin that the ~/.Xdefaults font syntax remains constant?
James> Last I looked pango and hb did not grok things like:
James> Emacs.Font: CMU Typewriter Text-11.4:dpi=133
James> and I do not know about:
James> Emacs.Font: DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=20
James> And xft in general also supports things like:
James> :pixelsize=20:matrix=0.6875 0.1875 0 1
James> which better enables matching when using sets of fallback fonts.
James> PanGo always avoided proper expresiveness and I doubt hb does any
James> better.
Emacs supports the FontConfig syntax for fonts, which allows all of
those except 'matrix'.
James> (And recall that I was one of the first to suggest having the equiv of
James> the modern --with-cairo as emacs' default, only to be harshly shot
James> down. Like usual, someone else has done it w/o that complaint. :)
No *prior* complaint :-)
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-29 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-28 10:13 cairo now default? Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 10:22 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 11:21 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 11:30 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 11:49 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 12:01 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 13:01 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 13:09 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 14:44 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 15:09 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 15:27 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 15:14 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 16:24 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 16:37 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 16:47 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 16:55 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 17:02 ` Yuri Khan
2020-01-28 17:32 ` Yuri Khan
2020-01-28 17:43 ` Yuri Khan
2020-01-29 8:30 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-29 10:11 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2020-01-29 10:54 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 18:44 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 17:49 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-28 20:33 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-29 11:21 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-29 14:07 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 13:10 ` Colin Baxter
2020-01-28 20:06 ` James Cloos
2020-01-29 8:45 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-01-28 14:08 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-01-28 14:58 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-29 6:53 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-01-29 10:57 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-02-01 15:42 ` Problems with SourceCodeVariable [Re: " Madhu
2020-02-03 9:25 ` Robert Pluim
2020-02-04 6:14 ` Tassilo Horn
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