Re: Lost antialias?

[Miles Bader]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
> How about treating "Helv" and "Courier" specially in
> ffont_resolve_generic_family, similar to "Sans" and "Mono"?

Why don't we just change the default face definitions to something more
appropriate on a modern system?

Maybe it would be also useful to support something like web-browsers
use, where you could specify a "family" of "Dejavu Sans,Helvetica,Sans",
and it would split the list at the commas and use the first one it could
find.

That way we could safely use "Dejavu Sans" [etc] when available, which
is probably the nicest and most consistent widely available choice on
modern FOSS systems.

-Miles

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