Re: Xft

Vladimir G. Ivanovic writes: > XEmacs without anti-aliased fonts looks horrendously ugly, IMHO, and I > can't think of an application that doesn't use anti-aliased fonts. GNU Emacs is one.

default to Xft, skim the last couple of months of emacs-devel. XEmacs's implementation of anti-aliased fonts is probably in no better shape. > I use Xft all the time, and have done so with both 21.4 and 21.5, but > I use non-standard configure options: > > $ ./configure \ > --with-xft=emacs,menubars,tabs,gauges \ > --with-gnome \ > --with-mule=no \ > --with-package-path=/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages > > Note (unless these have been fixed): "--with-xft=yes" This hasn't been fixed, it's on my list, but every time I feel up to working on configure, autocrap releases again, and I'm *forced* to work on it, after which I have no appetite for working on it.

> "--with-gtk" doesn't do anything It is implied by --with-gnome. Specifying --with-gnome enforces --with-gtk. > A caveat: Although I get anti-aliased fonts with the above, I don't > always get the fonts I specify. Bold fonts, in particular, are > problematic, and show up larger than they should. Patches welcome.