[oi-dev] Emacs has a bad font

[Gary Mills]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 05:44:42PM +0100, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:

> If you are using the gtk variant of emacs

That's the one I'm using.

> then it relies on pango for
> font rendering and layout which in case has dropped support for older
> font types a couple of months ago.
> So your problem might be that you are trying to use an unsupported (by
> pango) font type and thus rendering results look ugly.
> You might solve this be choosing a font of a supported font type, eg. a
> truetype font.

There's no indication of truetype in the list of fonts that emacs
displays.  In fact, emacs will often tell me that a font does not
exist when I select that font from its list.


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