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Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1? |
Date: |
18 Apr 2003 10:55:47 +0900 |
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> writes:
> I'm pretty happy with my 6x13 fixed font, so I'm not going to spend
> my time on anti-aliasing although I agree it would be nice to have.
While current GTK2/FT2 font anti-aliasing looks great for typical
variable-width fonts, places where it gets used for fixed-width fonts
(e.g., gnome-terminal) look notably worse to me than versions using
non-anti-aliased fonts.
I'm not entirely sure why this is; some possibilities that come to mind:
(1) FT2 doesn't render these fonts* well for some reason
(2) They aren't hinted well (though at least Andale Mono seems hinted
quite well actually)
(3) Something about the usage of fixed-width fonts makes the artifacts
of anti-aliasing (e.g. occasional fuzzy edges and uneven brightness)
more objectionable than with variable-width fonts
(4) I think I tend to use fixed-width fonts at smaller point sizes,
as the number of columns visible often matters more with them,
and anti-aliasing tends to look pretty bad at such point sizes
(5) ?
* `These fonts' being the fixed-width fonts usable with FT2 on my
system, e.g., Luxi Mono, Kochi Gothic, various versions of Courier,
Andale Mono.
-Miles
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- GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, D. D. Brierton, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, David Kastrup, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, D. D. Brierton, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, Stefan Monnier, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, D. D. Brierton, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, Stefan Monnier, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, D. D. Brierton, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, Stefan Monnier, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, D. D. Brierton, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?,
Miles Bader <=
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- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, D. D. Brierton, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, David Kastrup, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, Glenn Morris, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, D. D. Brierton, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, Kai Großjohann, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, Kai Großjohann, 2003/04/17
- Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, Matthew Kennedy, 2003/04/18
Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?, d2003xx, 2003/04/24