Re: The WHY of Xft

[David Hansen]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:30:55 +0900 Miles Bader wrote:

> Can xft still use bitmap fonts?  In the case of CJK, the commonly
> available X bitmap fonts do seem to be generally more attractive at
> typical text-editor size than what freetype produces for commonly[*]
> available scaled fonts.

Debian unstable (but AFAIK you have to manually edit this file on
Debian):

$ cat /etc/fonts/local.conf
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <include 
ignore_missing="yes">/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/fonts.conf</include>
<!-- Uncomment below to enable bitmapped fonts -->
  <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
<!-- Uncomment below to enable subpixel rendering -->
[...]

David