Re: antialiased fonts

[Rob Wilco]

> > Has anyone ever seen antialiased font with emacs?
> Me. Many times.
Great news, I have hope.

I have read the thorougly read this thread and I have many questions 
(and still no antialiased fonts !).



I wish to use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono for the antialised font. I am 
pretty sure it is an TrueType font that can be antialiased because every 
file related to "bitstream" is in a ttf folder.

 * How to be sure a font is TrueType or bitmap? Can xfontsel of xslfont 
tell if a font is TrueType or Bitmap or else?



I assume that if Gnome displays antialiased fonts then my X supports it. 
(because gtk uses XFT).

 * Am I right with that?


With your advice, I have set the following font in .emacs (my .emacs is 
minimal, it only contains the following two lines):

(defvar veramono "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans 
mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1")
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist (cons 'font veramono))

And actually, the font looks like my default system font, except that it 
is not antialiased (and ugly on a lcd screen).

 * What did I miss ?




I tried "M-x apropos: fonts" but tons of entries and several are 
functions unavailable on my system. (I tried M-x then "x-" and then TAB 
but there only x-set-selection while "M-x apropos: fonts" says there are 
lots of functions beginning with x-font-*)

 * How can I change fonts on the fly with emacs?



> Or invoke C-h H and then check with C-u C-x = the 
> glyphs.

If I type C-h H C-u C-x =, then I do get "Hello" in several langage and 
informations on the font used where the point is.

None of those are anti aliased.

 * What do you mean by check the glyphs?  What does it teaches me?