Re: qemacs font rendering

Hello Ted,

FBF files we originally used for direct bitmap rendering on systems that =
lack a high level graphics API.
Current targets either use the terminal or the system graphics rendering =
for fonts (X-Windows, MS-windows, Haiku=E2=80=A6
The text version does not use fonts at all (qe -nw).

FBF files are still used for rendering HTML pages as PNG files with the =
html2png utility.

Regarding font sizes larger than 16, this is a bug, all font sizes =
should be available to xqe on X-Windows.
Sizes larger than 15 seem to dysfunction for the fixed pitch system =
font. If you first set the font-face to =E2=80=9Ctimes=E2=80=9D, larger =
font sizes can be selected and displayed.
I shall investigate how to fix this for the default system font.

Thank you for the feed-back.

Chqrlie.

> On 19 Dec 2022, at 01:37, Ted X <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> My qemacs (xqe in a separate xterm window) can't handle font sizes =
over 14. It would just show a blank screen and only see a big cursor =
block if I set the fixed font to anything above 14.=20
> ex:
> set-style -> default -> font-size -> 16.
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> Can someone point out any direction on how qemacs font rendering =
works? Does it use the fbf files under fonts directory, or does it use =
X11 system fonts? I feel like normal text mode does use those fbf files.
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> Thank you,
> Ted