On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 06:25:03PM +0100, Andreas Happe wrote: > As XftFonts look rather ugly on my new (higher - resolution) laptop > screen, I'm stopping work on this for now, if anyone wants to take a > look at it (or write a Xrender/Xft engine) it's at > http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0226373.
Have you tried 'antialias=false' in the font description, e.g. font = "sans:antialias=false:size=9" Well, I prefer the X fonts over whatever fonts Xft uses even with AA disabled anyway. Another possiblity might also be to use pango. It supports drawing with with Xlib routines and does not require gtk/gdk/gnome bloat, although it still does require glib bloat. However, because pango breaks strings into linked lists before doing anything on them, it seems like a bad idea unless all the string processing code that requires measuring string length was moved to the drawing engine side, Ion made dependent on pango or drawable strings abstracted... not going to happen. Also, with the basic layout code, bi-di text is a problem because the line editor draws strings in pieces and it does not seem possible to disable bi-di support in pango. -- Tuomo
