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Re: anti-aliased fonts
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David Combs |
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Re: anti-aliased fonts |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:14:53 +0000 (UTC) |
In article <87zlmptvry.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au>,
Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
>"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
>
>--
>tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
Please, where do you get this thing?
David
Re: anti-aliased fonts, Ian Eure, 2008/09/03
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