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Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:45:24 +0200

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 14:47:31 +0100
> 
>     Po>  ** The Cairo graphics library is now used by default if present.
>     Po> -'--with-cairo' is now the default, if the appropriate development 
> files
>     Po> -are found by 'configure'.  Note that building with Cairo means using
>     Po> -Pango instead of libXFT for font support.  Since Pango 1.44 has
>     Po> -removed support for bitmapped fonts, this may require you to adjust
>     Po> -your font settings.
>     Po> +'--with-cairo' is now the default, if the appropriate development
>     Po> +files are found by 'configure'.  Building with Cairo is known to 
> cause
>     Po> +some problems with bitmap fonts.  This may require you to adjust your
>     Po> +font settings, or to build with Xft support instead.
>  
>     Po>  Note also that 'FontBackend' settings in ".Xdefaults" or
>     Po>  ".Xresources", or 'font-backend' frame parameter settings in your 
> init
> 
> I think this is fine. Note we do call some Pango api's when using the
> GTK font chooser, but I suspect you could never choose a bitmapped
> font that way anyway.

OK, so let's install this on the emacs-28 branch.

Thanks.



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