Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge

[David De La Harpe Golden]

Stephen Berman wrote:

>>     Was this still with FontBackend: xft
> 
> Yes.
> 
>>     I recommend "no".  Unless you really have a need of particular glyphs
>>     from or just can't live without some old favorite (probably monospace)
>>     bitmap font I guess.
> 
> My system has the above files and directories.  There was no symlink
> from either of those files, so I added the "no" one, as you suggested,
> ran fc-cache -fv, and then emacs -q.  Helvetica is still not anti-aliased.
> 

Hmm. Think it is also possible to instruct fontconfig not to antialias
for particular fonts and sizes, but I doubt you've deliberately done that.

Er. Mind you, on my system, the only font actually *called* "Helvetica"
is the bitmap font that IIRC ships with x.org.  But quite a few people
have a "Helvetica" outline font (sometimes of dubious legality).  I had
assumed you had an outline helvetica...

So.... just to cross-check - what does

fc-list : family scalable  | grep -i helvetica

now return for you?