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From: joakim@verona.se
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: how to promote the new font backend?
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:29:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3iqt9f7rf.fsf@verona.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C2BD36.4020804@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:26:14 +0800")

Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:

> joakim@verona.se wrote:
>> Recently I reinstalled my primary workstation with fc9. I noticed lots
>> of weird font issues with emacs.
>>   
>
> What kinds of issues? They might indicate a bug.

- I wasnt able to increase the fontsize beyond a certain limit using
  incdec-buffer-face-height.

- reading mail in gnus, certain characters became octal escapes rather
  than the swedish characters I'm used to seeing.  
  

>
>> How do we provide nice font defaults for new users?
>>   
>
> The default font if XFT is configured is monospace-12. Most fontconfig
> installations will map this to a modern font capable of using
> antialiasing. Does your installation fail to map it, or map it to a
> bitmap font?
>
-- 
Joakim Verona




  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-06 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-06 17:14 how to promote the new font backend? joakim
2008-09-06 17:26 ` Jason Rumney
2008-09-06 18:29   ` joakim [this message]
2008-09-07  5:45     ` Miles Bader

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