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Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus
From: |
Aidan Kehoe |
Subject: |
Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:49:03 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, Linux-i686) |
Ar an ceathrú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh Peter Petersen:
> Frank Schmitt <usereplyto2005@frank-schmitt.net> writes:
>
> > You could try to get a freetype library with truetype hinting enabled,
> > perhaps Bitstream Vera Sans Mono looks better then.
>
> Hm, sorry, I don't understand what this means in practice... Do you
> think of something emacs specific? What would it be called?
>
> If you mean installing freetype for my Linux system (not just emacs), it IS
> already installed, and bitstream vera sans mono already looks great,
> except (among others) in emacs.
Your other applications are using the Xft library, which Is And Ever Shall
Be better-looking than traditional server-side X11 fonts. There’s a CVS
branch of XEmacs that incorporates support for this library; I don’t
recommend using it, because it has yet to be released, but if you’re feeling
adventurous and don’t mind beta software THAT MAY CRASH, that is an
option.
http://www.google.com/groups?threadm=16866.35903.905008.699978%40parhasard.net
for some details on it.
GNU Emacs certainly doesn’t have it in CVS, but it may have a patch kicking
around.
What Frank Schmitt is talking about is the TrueType bytecode interpreter,
part of the TrueType specification. Because Apple has a patent on this
technology in the US, most Linux distributions ship with that functionality
turned off in FreeType. When enabled for the server-side font renderer, and
when using fonts that support these bytecode hints, display is improved,
though not to the level of Xft.
--
“I, for instance, am gung-ho about open source because my family is being
held hostage in Rob Malda’s basement. But who fact-checks me, or Enderle,
when we say something in public? No-one!” -- Danny O’Brien
- bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Peter Petersen, 2005/03/13
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Frank Schmitt, 2005/03/14
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Peter Petersen, 2005/03/14
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Frank Schmitt, 2005/03/14
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Peter Petersen, 2005/03/14
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus,
Aidan Kehoe <=
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Aidan Kehoe, 2005/03/14
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Peter Petersen, 2005/03/14
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Aidan Kehoe, 2005/03/14
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Miles Bader, 2005/03/14
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Jochem Huhmann, 2005/03/14
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Miles Bader, 2005/03/14
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Stefan Monnier, 2005/03/15
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Frank Thieme, 2005/03/15
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Stefan Monnier, 2005/03/16
- Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus, Frank Thieme, 2005/03/25