Ar an ceathrà là dÃag de mà MÃrta, scrÃobh Peter Petersen:
> Frank Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You could try to get a freetype library with truetype hinting enabled, > > perhaps Bitstream Vera Sans Mono looks better then. > > Hm, sorry, I don't understand what this means in practice... Do you > think of something emacs specific? What would it be called? > > If you mean installing freetype for my Linux system (not just emacs), it IS > already installed, and bitstream vera sans mono already looks great, > except (among others) in emacs. Your other applications are using the Xft library, which Is And Ever Shall Be better-looking than traditional server-side X11 fonts. Thereâs a CVS branch of XEmacs that incorporates support for this library; I donât recommend using it, because it has yet to be released, but if youâre feeling adventurous and donât mind beta software THAT MAY CRASH, that is an option. http://www.google.com/groups?threadm=16866.35903.905008.699978%40parhasard.net for some details on it. GNU Emacs certainly doesnât have it in CVS, but it may have a patch kicking around. What Frank Schmitt is talking about is the TrueType bytecode interpreter, part of the TrueType specification. Because Apple has a patent on this technology in the US, most Linux distributions ship with that functionality turned off in FreeType. When enabled for the server-side font renderer, and when using fonts that support these bytecode hints, display is improved, though not to the level of Xft. -- âI, for instance, am gung-ho about open source because my family is being held hostage in Rob Maldaâs basement. But who fact-checks me, or Enderle, when we say something in public? No-one!â -- Danny OâBrien _______________________________________________ Info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
