FAQ Q5.0.7: How can I use antialiased fonts under X11?

A recent change to the XEmacs FAQ recommends setting the menubar font when using XFT thusly: #define MONO Mono #define SANS Sans #define PTSIZEM 12 #define PTSIZES 11 ... XEmacs.menubar.font: SANS:size=PTSIZES This has no discernible effect as far as I can tell, but XEmacs*xftFont: SANS:size=PTSIZES does change the menubar font. I configured XEmacs as suggested (./configure --enable-mule --with-xft=emacs,menubars) and ran it with -vanilla. Has anyone else gotten 'XEmacs.menubar.font' to work? If so, under what conditions? BTW, does anyone else feel as I do that the recommendation *in this example* of using #defines obscures rather than clarifies what's going on? I see no point in #defining Mono to be MONO (it's harder to read uppercase) and the difference between PTSIZEM and PTSIZES is one character (again in uppercase) out of seven. Since either 'M-x replace-string' or 'M-x query-replace' work well, I don't see the need to avoid "boring hand substitution", especially at the expense of legibility. (Also note that "~.Xresources" should be "~/.Xresources".) --- Vladimir Linux 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 #3 PREEMPT x86_64 GNOME 2.22.3 FreeType 2.3.7 xfs 1.0.8 xorg-server 1.5.0 -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta