Re: ttf can't work on GNU Emacs(X-window)?

[James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>]

>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> writes:

>> Is there any way to anti alias the font?

Stefan> It's being worked on.  Check out the XFT_JHD_BRANCH in
Stefan> Emacs-CVS if you're courageous enough.

On that front, the last I tried it still didn't support changing the
display font, and the font specified on the command line was only
used for latin1; everything else fell back to Sans-12.  It also had
problems keeping each buffer's text within said buffer's borders.

Ian> I hope it is still possible to use bitmapped fonts bypassing xft.
Ian> I like my Emacs font the way it is.

Fontconfig (and therefore both Xft and cairo) supports any font
freetype supports, including bdf, pcf{,.gz} and other bitmap formats.

So, even when using client-side fonts you'll be able to use the bitmap
fonts you currently do.

In addition, it is highly unlikely that Emacs itself will abandon
support for server-side fonts.  Cross-platform support is just too
inherent in its design principles.  

-JimC
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James H. Cloos, Jr. <cloos@jhcloos.com>