[macemacsjp-english 405] Re: anti-aliasing problem still exists in the Dec '05 version

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Huaiyu Duan hduan****@ucsd*****
Mon Dec 12 01:29:59 JST 2005


Indeed, one probably should choose other fonts if more characters are  
used. However, I only use emacs for coding, and monaco font is  
perfect for this purpose. For the same reason, I use monaco font in  
terminals, in which Mac turns off anti-aliasing for monaco font  
appropriately.

-Huaiyu


On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:30 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 10.12.2005 um 23:02 schrieb Huaiyu Duan:
>
>> It used to work well, but now there is no way to turn off anti-
>> aliasing. Seiji suggested to disable font-smoothing. However, monaco
>> font looks terrible without smoothing.
>
> The Monaco font (suitcase) just has a few bitmapped sizes for the
> screen. I agree that these will look sharper, but it would look  
> strange
> when mixed with scalable only fonts. And you will have to mix them
> since Monaco has just 258 glyphs defined -- for use in Latin based
> scripts.
>
> What about hiraginomin?
>
> And I'd wish Lucida Sans Typewriter form Java could be used -- it's
> mac-cyrillic encoded! Says Mac OS X.
>
> --
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>
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