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Re: Xft / anti-aliased font support?


From: Kai Grossjohann
Subject: Re: Xft / anti-aliased font support?
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:59:27 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Bill White <billw@mchsi.com> writes:

> On Mon Aug 23 2004 at 16:59, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> said:
>
>> I use -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-*-*-*-* and it
>> does come with bold and oblique.  It's significantly smaller than
>> 10x20 (it's 6x13 IIRC), which I find to be a great advantage since I
>> get to see many more lines of text at a time.
>
> The most readable font I've found over the years is
> -B&H-LucidaTypewriter-Medium-R-Normal-Sans-12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1
> I try other fonts that people recommend but I've always returned to
> this one.  It has bold but not oblique afaict.

May I also suggest the GNU Intlfonts package?  Especially for someone
who likes 10x20 (ie, large fonts), this font might be nice.

(Of course, you, Bill and Stefan, prefer smaller fonts, and the
smaller version of GNU Intlfonts is not that nice.  It lacks bold, for
a start.)

Kai






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