>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Miles> [I didn't change anything in the fontconfig setup so it seems Miles> the default settings -- which are presumably aimed at white Miles> backgrounds -- deals pretty well with black backgrounds too.] It does depend on the font and whether you are using the byte code interpreter. The well-instructed fonts tend to use single-pixel wide stems up to circa 16â18 ppem. The auto-fitter, however, tends to result in wider stems. Xftâs rgba filter is tuned for light backgrounds; single-pixel stems tend to drop out when it is used with dark backgrounds. So, if you are using sub-pixel rendering, the BCI and a well instructed font you will see *much* better text with a light background than with a dark. But if you are using fonts w/o quality instructions â whether poorly-instructed fonts, non- ttf fonts, or freetype compiled w/o the interpreter â and/or greyscale rather than sub-pixel then light on dark should be almost as good as dark on light text. Or at least that is what I saw back when I tested it. -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
