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

[suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki hiroshima-u ac jp>]

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 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
> fonts.  My font, DejaVu Sans Mono, looks great in terminator, but not so
> good in graphical emacs.  I assume graphical emacs is using raw xft?  But I
> thought Pango uses xft as a backend, so they should look the same, right?
> My question is, what is the separation of duties of each of these font
> tools, and why might the same font be rendered differently in each
> application?  Is there any way to get emacs to render fonts as well as
> terminator?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
>
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