Re: antialised fonts in emacs
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:34:09AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> 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.
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