From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: how to promote the new font backend? Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:29:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <48C2BD36.4020804@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220725822 4915 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2008 18:30:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 18:30:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Development To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 06 20:31:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kc2YO-0000qM-0c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:30:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32966 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc2XO-0000gJ-Bs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:29:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc2XJ-0000g4-84 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:29:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc2XG-0000fs-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38424 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kc2XG-0000ff-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:29:26 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64]:35227 helo=gate.verona.se) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kc2XC-0003wI-PT; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:29:23 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id m86ITEcM009141; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 20:29:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <48C2BD36.4020804@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:26:14 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103596 Archived-At: Jason Rumney 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