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
next prev parent 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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