Mike> Is it possible to use several fonts at once with the Xft Mike> build or only one font? The Xft build supports faces; you can use multiple faces in the same buffer and multiple fonts on the same face. However Customize doesn't support either Xft or Mule yet. Mike> I have not yet tried the Xft build and I am wondering Mike> whether I should ... Visually, it's very nice. Pragmatically, it requires a fair amount of familiarity with Lisp-level face APIs to get it to work nicely. CVS mainline has some documentation in the internals manual in the node "Future Work -- Better Rendering Support" (or something like that). There are some changes in the sjt-xft branch that haven't made their way to the mainline (sorry, I should just do the doc work in the mainline, but I forgot this last time). -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.