GNU bug report logs - #35781
Make Cairo build obey hint-style font setting

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 17:40:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 35781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>,
 35781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35781: 27.0.50; [PATCH] Improve font display on Cairo builds
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 20:54:35 +0300

On 17.05.2019 20:39, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:
> - CAIRO_HINT_STYLE_SLIGHT has been available from version 1.0, and we
>    require 1.12, so AFAICT the setting can be used without checking for
>    any CAIRO_… feature.

Isn't font hinting something that the user sets in their global display 
configuration? With different people preferring different levels of hinting.
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