Re: antialiased fonts

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.05.2005 um 19:17 schrieb Rob Wilco:

> Has anyone ever seen antialiased font with emacs?

Me. Many times.

First I use TrueType fonts. They get rendered and anti-aliased by the X 
server.

Second Carbon Emacs for Mac OS X uses a Quickdraw based anti-aliasing 
for scalable fonts too.


To see the difference either use in one frame a vector based font or 
fontset (TrueType or PostScript, or OpenType if your X server supports 
this) and use in another frame for example bitmapped fonts that GNU 
supplies since ages (-etl-fixed-*, too -schumacher-clean-*, 
-mutt-clearlyu-*). Or invoke C-h H and then check with C-u C-x = the 
glyphs.


There is another approach too possible: first invoke xlsfonts and list 
all monospaced fonts with iso10646-1 encoding, as an example, size: 
12pt or 14pt or 17pt. Among them you'll probably see patterns like this 
one: -0-0-. This pattern tells you that this font is built from a 
scalable (vector based) font, i.e. TrueType, PostScript, OpenType. The 
other fonts are bitmap based, come from bdf or pcf files. You can have 
Courier or Lucida Sans Typewriter in both formats -- and find whether 
you have anti-aliasing on your platform.

I have with my X server (XFree86 version: 4.3.0). And I do prefer the 
bitmapped fonts! They look sharp and crisp, the glyphs are perfectly 
exact positioned.

--
Greetings

  Pete

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me
as a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world.
Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and
Germany will declare that I am a Jew.          --Albert Einstein, 1929