Re: antialiased fonts

[Rob Wilco]

Has anyone ever seen antialiased font with emacs?  (correlary question : Was I 
drunk when I saw that with a Mandrake distrib?)


> > I don't get it, why gnome-terminal can do it and emacs can't?
>
>
> gnome-terminal was written to use GTK for rendering, which in turn
> uses the X11 extension APIs for directly drawing antialiased fonts.
> Emacs was written to use the plain X11 text drawing API, which does
> not support antialiasing.

I googled a bit more, are you talking about xft for the X11 API?

>>What does it takes to make a gtk-aware emacs à la gvim?
> There are various degrees of GTK awareness. The current CVS, which
> will someday be Emacs 22 has GTK widgets (menus, scrollbars etc), but
> does not yet use GTK for drawing the text, since that is a much bigger
> job requiring a complete fork of the display engine.


>> What does it takes to make a gtk-aware emacs à la gvim?
>Get it from CVS, configure it --with-gtk, compile and install it  yourself.

If I follow the precedent post, my emacs would then be gtk-aware but still I 
would have unaliased fonts. Is that it?