Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus

[Miles Bader]

Jochem Huhmann <joh@gmx.net> writes:
>> If someone still knows of good fixed width fonts for emacs, please, let
>> me know.
>
> I'm using Lucidatypewriter which is (for me) as good as it gets. No
> italics, though.

Hmm, an oddball choice perhaps, but I really like it:  Shinonome-Gothic

[On Debian this seems to come from one of the two packages
`xfonts-shinonome' or `ttf-kochi-gothic'; I'm not entirely sure which
though.  I presume the former is a bitmap version, which Emacs will
presumably favor.]

For getting freefont to do auto-hinting (which can really, REALLY help
-- some fonts look about a million times better -- but the vera fonts
already have great hinting, so they probably won't look any different),
there are various ways I think.  On Debian it depends on the age of your
installation, but the following should work I think:

Put, in /etc/fonts/local.conf:

   <?xml version="1.0"?>
   <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
   <fontconfig>
     <include 
ignore_missing="yes">/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/fonts.conf</include>
     <match target="font">
       <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
         <bool>true</bool>
       </edit>
     </match>
   </fontconfig>

[You may already have that file with the lines between
<match> and </match> commented out; if so, uncomment them.]

In very recent versions of the Debian fontconfig package, there's a more
convenient system which involves making symlinks in the
/etc/fonts/conf.d directory[*], but I think the local.conf method is
still supported.

[*]  Basically choose which option you like from the named choices in
that directory, and make a symlink to it in the same directory with the
symlink name beginning with two digits.

-Miles
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