On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:34:09AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:33:04PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > >> > >> How can I use antialised fonts in emacs? I am using unstable. > > My understanding of the situation is that doing this would entail > modifying Emacs's rendering engine to use something that did > antialiasing. If I was going to bet, I'd bet that XEmacs successfully > did this before FSF Emacs. But both Emacsen have historically been > against prebuilt widget kits; the easiest way to get antialiased text > from a programmer's point of view is to build your program as either a > GNOME (2) or KDE program, and Emacs is explicitly neither. >
I'm never bothered to clear up the distinction between gtk and gnome but the cvs version of FSF emacs has gtk toolkit support. I don't know to what level though. > > I am not sure about anti aliased, but try moving the type1 fonts to > > the bottom of the fontpath list in XF86Config and if you have > > truetype fonts move them to the top. Significantly improved my > > situation. > > This isn't going to help the problem at all, but I'm kind of curious > why everyone keeps suggesting it. Is the X Type 1 font renderer > really that terrible? In my setup I've actually gone out of my way to > use Type 1 fonts and been happy with the results. > Changing the order affects what type font will be chosen since the font is chosen by name not by type. I mostly use true type fonts and they are render much nicer then type 1 for me. >From my experience, type 1 fonts are the ugliest option for screen rendering, but I guess its a matter of taste. I guess its also a matter of available generic fonts. For example I found no way to change the emacs menu font explicitly but the true type fonts chosen by default is much nicer then the type 1 font (they render about the same, I just prefer the appearance). Maybe if I could play with the fonts explicitly I would have gotten the same result with type 1. > -- > David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ > "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." > -- Abra Mitchell > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
