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Re: anti-aliased fonts
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Tim X |
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Re: anti-aliased fonts |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:37:37 +1000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
"sashang@gmail.com" <sashang@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi
>
> Is there support for anti-aliased fonts in emacs? I installed emacs a
> few days ago and tried to use it but found that the fonts were
> rendered poorly. Some searching of the net revealed that I had to get
> a special snapshot installed (apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk) to
> get anti-aliased fonts. I find this surprising considering that it's
> 2008 and every other application I use supports anti-aliased fonts.
What you are after has been introduced only in the CVS branch of
emacs. I run the CVS version daily and its very stable most of the
time. The emacs-snapshot is a recent snapshot of the CVS head and works
well. None of the stable e.g. released versions of emacs prior to the 23
CVS branch have anti-aliased font support.
The new CVS version has a lot of nice new enhancements that are really
catching emacs up to what most would expect from the worlds greatest
editor, including -
* Improved support for UTF-8 and other character sets
* Anti-aliased fonts and support for better font handling using
xft, otf and n17m
* Support for dbus
* User friendly interface to GNU PG
* Some new useful packages, such as org-mode, nxml-mode, etc
* A dired like mode for viewing processes in a similar way to
* top
* enhanced line wrapping options and more options in the option
window to do things like set the default font
* New completions and screen centering/moving features
* Improved TRAMP
and lots more. Going on history, it will probably be a while before
version 23 is released as the next stable version. However, as already
mentioned, I find it stable enough to use daily at work and home.
Tim
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tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
Re: anti-aliased fonts, Ian Eure, 2008/09/03
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