Now GNU Emacs doesn't need to look like a throwback on
your linux desktop any more than XEmacs does :-).
Early stages, but it's usable, thanks to these folk:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs
SLIME screenshot:
http://oldr.net/slime-gnuemacs-xft.png
[subpixel rendering on; won't look right on non-LCD
displays]
On 2005-07-09, David Golden <············@oceanfree.net> wrote:
> SLIME screenshot:
> http://oldr.net/slime-gnuemacs-xft.png
It doesn't look obvious to me that the buffer font is anti-aliased. You
might want to try a hinted font like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
Dave Cook
From: David Golden
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs now also at bearable prettiness on linux...
Date:
Message-ID: <CASze.2257$R5.531@news.indigo.ie>
Dave Cook wrote:
> It doesn't look obvious to me that the buffer font is anti-aliased.
> You might want to try a hinted font like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
>
It, um, is Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
It's not supposed to look obviously antialiased, in my book.
What it is is a hell of a lot clearer for a given physical font size
than without Xft rendering.
It is being subpixel rendered* and not overly intrusively antialiased:
take xmag or whatever to it and you can see it.
*i.e. ~300DPI horizontal luma resolution on my ~100DPI display by
treating the R,G,B subpixels separately... ("Cleartype" in
MicrosoftLand). Which is nice.
On 2005-07-09, David Golden <············@oceanfree.net> wrote:
> It, um, is Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
Oops, I was looking for the dots in the zeros and missed them.
> It's not supposed to look obviously antialiased, in my book.
> What it is is a hell of a lot clearer for a given physical font size
> than without Xft rendering.
It looked a little rough to me compared to the same font in the xemacs xft
branch on my powerbook, but maybe it's just the background color.
Dave Cook
From: David Golden
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs now also at bearable prettiness on linux...
Date:
Message-ID: <SFVze.2261$R5.439@news.indigo.ie>
Dave Cook wrote:
> It looked a little rough to me compared to the same font in the xemacs
> xft branch on my powerbook, but maybe it's just the background color.
>
Possibly. I also tend to fiddle with gamma settings, so it may look
better (or at least different!) for me anyway. Either way, it's nice
that GNU Emacs now has some ability in that department.
In article <·················@news.indigo.ie>,
David Golden <············@oceanfree.net> wrote:
> Now GNU Emacs doesn't need to look like a throwback on
> your linux desktop any more than XEmacs does :-).
>
> Early stages, but it's usable, thanks to these folk:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs
>
> SLIME screenshot:
> http://oldr.net/slime-gnuemacs-xft.png
> [subpixel rendering on; won't look right on non-LCD
> displays]
What do people smoke to get these funky colors? ;-)
They mix really wild with the gray stuff.
From: David Golden
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs now also at bearable prettiness on linux...
Date:
Message-ID: <pGSze.2259$R5.547@news.indigo.ie>
Rainer Joswig wrote:
> What do people smoke to get these funky colors? ;-)
> They mix really wild with the gray stuff.
Well, granted, but the grey is just a border. I could
blue-tinge it to match a bit better I guess. I find
the now-common black-on-white to be more than a bit
annoying for large swathes of text viewed for long periods of time
on an back-illuminated display (on a reflective "display" like actual
paper, the situation's a bit different...), so I tend
to use pale yellow on dark blue for editing. The other funky
colours were that way when I got there (i.e they're the slime
defaults) :-)
From: Emre Sevinc
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs now also at bearable prettiness on linux...
Date:
Message-ID: <87fyuoxa9m.fsf@ileriseviye.org>
David Golden <············@oceanfree.net> writes:
> Now GNU Emacs doesn't need to look like a throwback on
> your linux desktop any more than XEmacs does :-).
>
> Early stages, but it's usable, thanks to these folk:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs
>
> SLIME screenshot:
> http://oldr.net/slime-gnuemacs-xft.png
> [subpixel rendering on; won't look right on non-LCD
> displays]
>
>
"GNU Emacs now also at bearable prettiness on linux..."
wasn't it already?
Are you talking about fonts, or just the window layout
and their contents?
Check this one out, from a Turkish Lisp forum (which also
includes the famous Mac version):
http://www.fazlamesai.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1423
Yes, yes I know it is console screenshot, creating
X version is left to reader as an exercise :)
Happy hacking,
--
Emre Sevinc
eMBA Software Developer Actively engaged in:
http:www.bilgi.edu.tr http://ileriseviye.org
http://www.bilgi.edu.tr http://fazlamesai.net
Cognitive Science Student http://cazci.com
http://www.cogsci.boun.edu.tr
From: David Golden
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs now also at bearable prettiness on linux...
Date:
Message-ID: <0tSze.2256$R5.549@news.indigo.ie>
Emre Sevinc wrote:
> wasn't it already?
>
Not to my exacting standards, no. :-)
> Are you talking about fonts, or just the window layout
> and their contents?
Font rendering. Every other application I use has had
decent font rendering for some time, emacs-on-X11 just caught up.