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Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge
From: |
David De La Harpe Golden |
Subject: |
Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge |
Date: |
Fri, 23 May 2008 05:16:11 +0100 |
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Stephen Berman wrote:
>
> The (active) mode line face now displays Helvetica correctly. Note,
> however, that in the inactive mode line face the characters are wider,
And not anti-aliased? Was this still with FontBackend: xft ?
And [welcome to complication, Level 2] did you have fontconfig/xft set
to allow bitmap fonts or not? While most linux distros now default to
"no", if fontconfig/xft /is/ using bitmap fonts, then "new" font
handling can still, depending of course on the font, result in
x-core-font-like-in-appearance rendering, you see! (including in emacs
with FontBackend: xft, as far as I can tell. Hmmm.)
At least if you're on debian or a debian-oid (e.g. ubuntu...), this is
usually controlled by which one of
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf or
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf
is symlinked in to /etc/fonts/conf.d/
(if you change this, you may have to run fc-cache -fv )
I recommend "no". Unless you really have a need of particular glyphs
from or just can't live without some old favorite (probably monospace)
bitmap font I guess.
If you do enable bitmaps in fontconfig, try
"fc-list :scalable=False family" in a shell to get the fontconfig names
for bitmap fonts usable in fontconfig/xft apps...
- (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/15
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Kenichi Handa, 2008/05/15
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/16
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/16
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/17
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/17
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/17
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/17
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/18
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/22
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge,
David De La Harpe Golden <=
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, James Cloos, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, James Cloos, 2008/05/23
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/24
- Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge, Stephen Berman, 2008/05/27