lee <[email protected]> writes: > how comes that emacs displays the text with ugly characters? > > The characters from the emacs frame are somehow messed up. I've tried > different monospace fonts and different sizes, and they all get messed > up alike.
Someone wrote me that it looks as if some anti-aliasing is done with the fonts, and I have been thinking the same. I found a chapter about fonts in the emacs documentation and put ,---- | emacs.font: -efont-fixed-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-* `---- into my ~/.Xresources. Now emacs uses the same font as xterm, and it looks way better. It seems when you specify fonts in emacs with "Options->Set default font ...", you can chose only from fonts known to gtk. Isn't ant-aliasing supposed to make fonts more pretty and easier to read instead of messing them up and making them very straining for the eyes? BTW, I remember that some time ago, there was a discussion about the readability of fonts in X sessions vs. the readability of fonts on the console. Has anyone found a font that can be used in X and is as nice as the font on the console yet? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
