Font Rendering backends

2014-12-17 Thread Michael Gummelt
Hi, I'm just learning how font rendering on linux works, and I'm trying to understand why my fonts look different in terminator (a gnome application) and graphical emacs. The terminator man page says that the font config can be set to a Pango font name, which suggests it's using Pango to render

Re: [gtk-i18n-list] Font Rendering backends

2014-12-17 Thread suzuki toshiya
Hi, There might be so many possibilities of the reason why they are different, so I recommend to post the screenshot how they are rendered differently. However, I'm unfamiliar with the font backend in Emacs... Regards, mpsuzuki Michael Gummelt wrote: Hi, I'm just learning how font rendering

Re: [gtk-i18n-list] Font Rendering backends

2014-12-17 Thread suzuki toshiya
Thanks! Ahhh, the difference is slightly different what I expected (I expected some hinting or subpixel rendering configuration is different between terminator and emacs) - the difference seems to me as if the width of the glyphs are same, but the height of the characters are different (although