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Re: Anti-aliased fonts support ?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Anti-aliased fonts support ? |
Date: |
Thu, 06 May 2004 15:45:50 GMT |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
> There's a patch to add libxft support to Emacs, but the last time I
> tried it, it was still quite unpolished[*].
Right it is still work-in-progress and hasn't seen much progres in
a while now. The Arch branch is authoritative AFAIK.
> [*] Indeed, for me it barely worked at all, even with lots of fiddling.
> However from the author's screenshot I gather he had better luck,
> so I guess it probably depends on what fonts you have installed, etc.
Last time I talked to the guy he said that he hasn't implemented the
font-selection part of the code, only the display so you get a hard-coded
helvetica and that's it. Also there were a few display glitches when
I tried it.
I'd love to see this work developed further.
Stefan