On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:45:42 -0500, James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It should be pointed out that antialiasing and sub-pixel rendering are > just two of the benefits of the client-side font system brought by Xft > and friends. > > The other benefits are just as important. Control and installation of > fonts are easier for most users
Can you explain in more detail? I use debian, and Emacs already seems able to use the same fonts as xft-using programs, albeit not in anti-aliased form. > fonts with large encodings -- such as > CJKV fonts or any iso10646-encoded font -- use *much* less vm and data > transfer between client and server is reduced for most workloads. Doesn't the X server already support partial loading of large fonts? [I mean the "-deferglyphs 16" in the X startup options.] -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
