From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "D. D. Brierton" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1? Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 04:02:10 +0100 Organization: DZR Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5ladepm442.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050635271 15606 80.91.224.249 (18 Apr 2003 03:07:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 03:07:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 18 05:07:49 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 196ME4-00043O-00 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 05:07:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 196MBu-0003pZ-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:05:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nntp.theplanet.net!inewsm1.nntp.theplanet.net!zen.net.uk!landlord!stones.force9.net.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Pan/0.13.3 (That cat's something I can't explain) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.159.101.92 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@plus.net.uk Original-X-Trace: stones.force9.net 1050634895 212.159.101.92 (Fri, 18 Apr 2003 04:01:35 BST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 04:01:35 BST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112082 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8581 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8581 On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:55:47 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > While current GTK2/FT2 font anti-aliasing looks great for typical > variable-width fonts, places where it gets used for fixed-width fonts > (e.g., gnome-terminal) look notably worse to me than versions using > non-anti-aliased fonts. Well, this is probably just horses for courses, but on my Dell i8200 laptop with 1600x1200 ultra-sharp display Luxi Mono and Andale Mone both look *fanatstic* anti-aliased. I'm curious to see how the new Bitstream Vera fonts that were released officially today (or was it yesterday?) look with the new freetype and fontconfig which supposedly have improved hinting that will make Vera look even better. -- ====================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@dzr-web.com www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) ======================================================================