Re: Emacs Font Issues
Jim Gettys <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver |
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| Organization | HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 21:08, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 17 o'clock on Mar 17, Matt Jones wrote:
>
> > - Mathematica fonts are rendered horribly - it's almost as if
> > whatever renders the fonts is cutting out massive amounts
> > of pixels. I'm sure that this isn't subpixel aa messups
> > (I've changed all of those settings around, and nothing changes)
>
> Emacs and Mathematica appear to be using core fonts, and kdrive core font
> handling can be made identical to XFree86, but by default it probably
> isn't.
>
> You probably need to rebuild the Xfont library and specify
> '--enable-freetype' to make sure you get the freetype rasterizer for
> scalable fonts.
Seems like we should probably make this the default behavior
for the Xfont package...
- Jim
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Jim Gettys <[email protected]>
HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory