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Re: font-backend
From: |
Kenichi Handa |
Subject: |
Re: font-backend |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:29:00 +0900 |
User-agent: |
SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/23.0.60 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) |
In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > > Can someone "in the know" please post an explanation of the
> > > font-backend feature, and what are its advantages/disadvantages?
> >
> > The reason most people seem to use it (and I think just about
> > _everybody_ who I've seen mention building unicode-branch or post-merge
> > emacs, seems to) because they want anti-aliased fonts.
> >
> > Some other advantages might be better integration with modern
> > client-side font mechanisms, particularly font-selection, instead of
> > using the traditional (and largely regarded as "crufty") X font
> > mechanism.
I think the biggest advantage is the Emacs can use OTF with
the font-backend mechanism. For such script as Indic, it's
vital matter.
> Thanks, but I also asked about disadvantages.
Once the code gets stable, I think there's no disadvantage.
---
Kenichi Handa
address@hidden
- Re: 23.0.60; show-paren-mode causes abnormal vertical lines on Win32., (continued)
- Re: 23.0.60; show-paren-mode causes abnormal vertical lines on Win32., Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/15
- Re: 23.0.60; show-paren-mode causes abnormal vertical lines on Win32., Jason Rumney, 2008/02/15
- Re: 23.0.60; show-paren-mode causes abnormal vertical lines on Win32., Juanma Barranquero, 2008/02/15
- Re: 23.0.60; show-paren-mode causes abnormal vertical lines on Win32., Jason Rumney, 2008/02/15
- Re: 23.0.60; show-paren-mode causes abnormal vertical lines on Win32., Juanma Barranquero, 2008/02/15
- font-backend [was Re: 23.0.60; show-paren-mode causes abnormal vertical lines on Win32.], Glenn Morris, 2008/02/15
- Re: font-backend, Miles Bader, 2008/02/15
- Re: font-backend, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/02/16
- Re: font-backend, Miles Bader, 2008/02/16
- Re: font-backend, Jason Rumney, 2008/02/16
- Re: font-backend,
Kenichi Handa <=
- Re: font-backend, finalpatch, 2008/02/22
- Re: font-backend, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/22
- Re: font-backend, Feng Li, 2008/02/23
- Re: font-backend, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2008/02/22
- Re: font-backend, Jason Rumney, 2008/02/22
- Re: font-backend, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2008/02/22
- Re: font-backend, Jason Rumney, 2008/02/24
- Re: font-backend, finalpatch, 2008/02/25
- Re: font-backend, Jason Rumney, 2008/02/22
- Re: font-backend, Feng Li, 2008/02/23