Re: Xft and X-Symbols???

Stefan> I was very happy, when I first saw your xft branch did Stefan> compile. Ahh, it's not really mine; my initials got on it for historical reasons. Credit goes mostly to Matthias Neubauer and Eric Knauel and a couple of Russian guys whose names I forget (mea maxima culpa). Stefan> And even more after I saw the antialiazing result! The Stefan> reason for me doing this was, that I wanted to have the Stefan> same look of xemacs on windows and on linux. The truetype Stefan> font that I got adicted to under windows did look really Stefan> ugly with anti-aliazing. You mean "without anti-aliasing", right? Stefan> At the moment I' mainly using xemacs to finish my PhD Stefan> in. A package that has become indispensible for me is Stefan> x-symbols. This symbolic fonts increase the readability of Stefan> the readability of my latex files extremely. Stefan> I would really like to know how to get these fonts Stefan> displayed in xemacs with your xft patch. I would Stefan> appreciate any suggestion! Sincerely yours IIRC, x-symbol defines a charset then uses an x-symbol-specific font (distributed with x-symbol) to display it. Unfortunately, the way things work currently is that the Xft font-finding code _always_ returns a font, but it comes first in the process, so the code to find a legacy X11 font never gets invoked. I'm not sure how to deal with this, as the documents for fontconfig and Xft are very unclear. It would be nice to tweak a parameter and let Xft do all the work, but probably I need to check for a legacy XLFD and if so find and use the X font using our old code. I don't know when I'll have time to work on this (maybe late next week, maybe not for 6 weeks), and I don't know how long it will take to come up with a good solution. So I'll CC to xemacs-beta, where one of the other Xft hackers may be able to use the hint to get things moving for you. If you want to help track this down, first cvs update to current version of sjt-xft which has some important fixes, then edit the file src/xft-fonts.c, find the initialization int debug_xft = 0; and change it to int debug_xft = 1; Then when you're using x-symbol, watch the console output which should show Xft trying to find the x-symbol font and substituting some other font for it. (I don't know when x-symbol loads its fonts, so this could happen at initialization, or when your latex files get loaded by session.el or desktop.el, or when you turn on x-symbol mode, or even at some apparently random 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.