On Fri, 29/09/06 13:27 +0100, Kenichi Handa wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> There are some interesting discussions in XftGnuEmacs in >> emacswiki.org. Hope the developers can consider this. > >> ---- >> Sept. 23, 2006: Is there an Xresource that is equivalent to the >> command-line option ‘--enable-font-backend’ so that I don’t have to >> type this every time I start Emacs? > >> - Doesn’t seem to be. But it’s a trivial patch to src/emacs.c to flip >> the command line arg to on-by-default, just reverse the sense of the >> variable. I’m not entirely clear why one would compile in Xft >> support and not use it at this stage (and on my system at least, the >> unicode-2 branch doesn’t even display particularly sensibly unless >> you turn it on…), so IMHO it would be nice (tm) if it was on by >> default upstream. > > I didn't know about that wiki site. If you find a question > that can't be answered easily, could you please forward it > to here? I think I don't have a time to check that wiki > site that frequently. >
No problem. > Anyway, the `--enable-font-backend' option will disappear as > soon as we can get rid of legacy font-handling codes. > Unfortunately, for Windows and Mac port, we still need them. > > By the way, I've just added this note in README.Unicode. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Which font backends to use can be specified by X resource > "FontBackend". For instance, if you want to use Xft fonts only, > > Emacs.FontBackend: xft > > will work. If this resource is not set, Emacs tries to use all font > backends available on your graphic device. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Even if you set it, --enable-font-backend is still necessary > because Emacs calls font-related functions before it checks > above resource. This is very helpful. However even with "Emacs.FontBackend: xft" and --enable-font-backend, CJK will use xfld font other than xft font if both fonts are available. > > --- > Kenichi Handa > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Leo _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug