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Re: cairo now default?
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Robert Pluim |
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Re: cairo now default? |
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Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:45:49 +0100 |
>>>>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:06:03 -0500, James Cloos <address@hidden> said:
>>>>> "RP" == Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:
RP> Why? Xft and Cairo should have the same font support, apart from
RP> bitmap fonts. Only people who've messed with font-backend might have
RP> issues, and there should be not be too many of those.
James> Are you certasin that the ~/.Xdefaults font syntax remains constant?
James> Last I looked pango and hb did not grok things like:
James> Emacs.Font: CMU Typewriter Text-11.4:dpi=133
James> and I do not know about:
James> Emacs.Font: DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=20
James> And xft in general also supports things like:
James> :pixelsize=20:matrix=0.6875 0.1875 0 1
James> which better enables matching when using sets of fallback fonts.
James> PanGo always avoided proper expresiveness and I doubt hb does any
James> better.
Emacs supports the FontConfig syntax for fonts, which allows all of
those except 'matrix'.
James> (And recall that I was one of the first to suggest having the equiv
of
James> the modern --with-cairo as emacs' default, only to be harshly shot
James> down. Like usual, someone else has done it w/o that complaint. :)
No *prior* complaint :-)
Robert
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- Re: cairo now default?, Colin Baxter, 2020/01/29
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