Re: Controlling the XFT fonts that exmh uses for message display?

If you hack up a patch we can help clean it up. It's going to boil down to matching font names

Brent

On May 18, 2012, at 6:56 AM, "Chris Siebenmann" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm considering switching my exmh to use XFT fonts (via switching to
> tk8.5), in part to match the rest of my X environment and in part to get
> better Unicode font support (I'm very used to my old X bitmap fonts, but
> they are behind the times).
> 
> The choice of what fonts to use when for MIME messages is normally
> controlled by the *mime_<charset>_<type>_families: resources in
> exmh-defaults, eg '*mime_iso-8859-1_plain_families' (and then the
> starting size is set with *mimeFontSize). So normally I might just
> set some face names in those resources.
> 
> However, looking at the code in lib/mime.tcl's Mime_GetFont() (which
> actually does the lookup) suggests that this isn't going to work; its
> implementation seems very strongly tied to XLFD font names. Run on a
> tk8.5 that supports XFT fonts and not XLFD fonts, I expect it to fail
> entirely and give me only (at best) whatever *Msg*font is set to (or the
> XFT 'fixed' by default). This seems less than ideal, especially for MIME
> types that want a proportional font or different font sizes.
> 
> Has anyone dealt with this issue and gotten exmh to use XFT fonts
> well for message display, or am I barking up the wrong tree here?
> 
> (Or is this something that I should really ask on exmh-devel instead?)
> 
>    - cks
> PS: In theory one could revise Mime_GetFont() et al to do an XFT-based
> font specification and font lookup if TK is XFT-capable, but this sort
> of change is probably beyond my TCL/TK/XFT coding capabilities right
> now. If I got something working it would probably not look very well.
> 
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