From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: emacs: Use libotf. Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 23:20:34 +0300 Message-ID: <877fh4q0a5.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87oaamja1v.fsf@gnu.org> <87ziu5x9ng.fsf@gnu.org> <871t7ds0zy.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46308) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afYyT-0005oV-MD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:20:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afYyQ-00032v-Ht for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:20:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <871t7ds0zy.fsf@gnu.org> (Roel Janssen's message of "Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:22:09 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Roel Janssen Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Roel Janssen (2016-03-14 15:22 +0300) wrote: > I attached two screenshots, emacs-from-guix.png and > emacs-from-fedora.png. Both are compiled with libotf support. Besides > the missing Fira font, the text on the Emacs from Guix looks stretched > and not properly anti-aliased to me. For me, Emacs displays font properly (something similar to your "emacs-from-fedora.png") even without libotf support. Did you install any ttf fonts in your user profile (like "font-dejavu" or "font-liberation")? After installing the fonts you can run "fc-cache -fv", though it is probably not needed. I use the following in my emacs config to set up the default font: (set-frame-font "Liberation Mono-12" nil t) -- Alex