I do not care antialias or hinting if there are bitmap fonts, but they are necessary when using some truetype fonts. I use dmenu to show how fonts are broken.
https://www.getdropbox.com/gallery/957017/1/dwm?h=fb5e6b On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:13 PM, bill lam <cbill....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Haomin Wen wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am sorry but I really hope dwm can switch to using pango. >> >> X fonts are broken and not well supported, at least in Ubuntu. I have six >> Chinese fonts shown in xlsfonts, but only two of them can be displayed. Two >> of them only support 16 pixel and 24 pixel size. They are too large, given >> that my dpi is as low as 75. The other font is arphic ukai, but it is not >> bitmap font, and therefore broken. WenQuanYi Bitmap Song is a nice bitmap >> font and covers many encodings, but I can use it for no obvious reason. >> >> It seems to me that pango's powerfulness comes with almost no cost. >> >> For programmers, there is little difference, or at least it generally will >> not increase SLOC. >> >> For users, they just need to set the font to something like "Sans-10" or >> "Monosapce-10". It is much simpler than setting X fonts. Besides, fontconfig >> is powerful. User can set spacing, priority, antialias, hinting, and a lot >> more properties of fonts, which is necessary for certain fonts. > > Can you give examples, eg url where its title failed to displayed > properly using firefox? I use debian and previosly ubuntu and found > no problems. Not sure why correlate bitmap font to broken or not? > What do you mean by broken? Can you give some screen shoot. Does > that really matter to have antialias or hinting in the single line > bar? > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > 唐詩150 劉禹錫 蜀先主廟 > 天地英雄氣 千秋尚凜然 勢分三足鼎 業復五銖錢 > 得相能開國 生兒不象賢 淒涼蜀故妓 來舞魏宮前 > >
