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koro

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From: Japan

Registered: 2007-04-16

Posts: 34

emacs with truetype fonts.

May I use truetype fons in current emacs package ?
Or Should I compile source with '--with-xft' option?

Regards.

pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

Posts: 776

Re: emacs with truetype fonts.

Dunno, but Emacs with XFT is very nice.

koro

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From: Japan

Registered: 2007-04-16

Posts: 34

Re: emacs with truetype fonts.

Thank you for your reply, pauldonnelly.

I'll search more by google.

Regards.

david

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Registered: 2007-06-04

Posts: 9

Re: emacs with truetype fonts.

The version of emacs in extra is 22.1.3.
I don't think the xft code is in here: it's in the future version 23.
There is an emacs-cvs package in AUR, latest snapshot 20070606. I downloaded it hoping for the anti-aliased fonts...its build options certainly include --with-xft, but I haven't seen them yet . Will keep trying.

Last edited by david (2007-06-12 11:00:12)

kappa

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Registered: 2006-11-10

Posts: 26

Re: emacs with truetype fonts.

The emacs-unicode-2 branch has xft support:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs
There is also an AUR  package:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/emacs … e-2.tar.gz

Last edited by kappa (2007-06-12 12:01:22)

koro

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From: Japan

Registered: 2007-04-16

Posts: 34

Re: emacs with truetype fonts.

Thank you david, kappa.

kappa, I found that URL, too.
After I posted here, I Found the same one.

And I checked out source code from cvs repository,
Then I compiled and Installed emacs(with xft) without PKGBUILD.

david, you are right, installed emacs version is 23.0.0.
And I could see emacs with xft font.

The command is:
emacs --enable-font-backend -fn "fontname"
(Before Launcing emacs, I renamed .emacs to dot_emacs)

I will try AUR package.

david, kappa, thank you for your reply.

Best regards.

Last edited by koro (2007-06-12 13:23:39)