I've been Googling for hours, and have rebuilt emacs 22 several times,
and I still can't seem to get a decent font working. I first tried the
Ubuntu packages for emacs 22, but when I failed to get a readable
font, I tried building from source as follows:

./configure --with-gtk --enable-font-backend --with-xft --with-
freetype --with-png --with-tiff --with-jpeg
make
sudo make install

The built-in font selection dialog (from Options | Set font) only has
a few fonts to choose from, so I've been trying to set them manually
as follows:

emacs -r -fn "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-
*-*-*-*-*"

But the fonts look all jaggedy :(

I thought emacs 22 made an improvement by providing anti-aliased font
capabilities - is this true? If so, how does one enable it? Some
articles have stated that 22 doesn't provide this capability.

Brian Adkins

Brian Adkins gmail.com> writes:

Brian Adkins gmail.com> writes:

...

No, you still need Emacs from CVS.
Have a look at this: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs

Tom

On 6 Feb, 22:50, Bill O'Connor gmail.com> wrote:

That branch is now dead. Use the CVS trunk instead (ie leave out the "-
r emacs-unicode-2" above).

If you want to switch an existing copy to the trunk, use "cvs update -
A".

If you check that link it points out that emacs-unicode-2 has recently been
merged to the trunk and that

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co emacs

should be enough now.

To update from the trunk, instead ofemacs-unicode-2, just do

cvs update -A

as further Unicode development will happen there.

Am 06.02.2008 um 23:50 schrieb Bill O'Connor:

This version was latest known as GNU Emacs 23.0.60 – the "other" GNU
Emacs, version 23.0.50, has been upgraded on the weekend to version
23.0.60, so there is, hopefully, only one available via CVS.

You have three choices to run with font-backend active (you can also
invoke GNU Emacs with --disable-font-backend), with any (*one*) of
these three X resources:

Emacs.FontBackend: x
Emacs.FontBackend: xft
Emacs.FontBackend: ftx

First one does nothing (for me, maybe more in X11R7.x), second one
does font-aliasing via libXft, third one does this via libfreetype2
and when compiled *without* libXft.

On Feb 6, 6:38 pm, Nick Roberts snap.net.nz> wrote:

Am 07.02.2008 um 17:21 schrieb Brian Adkins:

Yes.

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Pete

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Brian Adkins gmail.com> writes:

As you said, it is a wiki, so edit it to what you think might be
helpful.

Thanks,
Tom

On Feb 7, 12:17 pm, Tom Rauchenwald
wrote:

I appreciate your trust, but I really don't think I'm qualified to
hack out the obsolete information from that page. I would likely be
unintentionally deleting some good with the bad.

However, I did move the confusing notice a bit lower on the page which
should be helpful.