Re: Xft support (freetype, anti-aliasing) in X11 emacs

[Ami Fischman]

"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> I'm working on a Gtk port (not much time to spend on this lately, but
> moving forward somewhat faster this month).  But that won't give you
> anti-alias support "for free".  In Gtk at least, it would mean a total
> conversion of all display code in Emacs to use Gtk primitives
> for text.  This duplication of code is undesirable.

My impression was that if the code uses pango, then you can relatively
simply select between having pango use Xft/ft2/std.X calls.  Is this
incorrect or were you not including using pango under the heading of a "Gtk
port"?

> Putting in anti-alias code that works with X regardless of toolkit would
> be nice.

I think having emacs use Xft2 directly instead of standard X font interface
would do it.  

Cheers,
-- 
  Ami Fischman
  address@hidden