Unfortunately, the Unicode characters are not missing from Bitstream Vera, but (IIRC) there is no code to display anything except ASCII (Latin-1?) in the xft patch.
There's a new branch emacs-unicode-2 (or is it unicode-xft?) in CVS that might be better in this regard.
There's a better version of an Xft-enabled emacs available now.
You can get it by following the instructions on:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs
Duncan.
The Flash limitation is architecture specific; there's no Flash plugin for amd64. The only thing I really miss here is Homestar Runner, but the kicker is there's no Web Start in Sun's 64 bit Linux VM offerings, either. There are two solutions I know of: one is to not install the 64-bit version of your Linux distribution in the first place, and the other of which is to use the linux32 wrapper utility in combination with a 32-bit browser and JRE (and Flash) installation (there's a howto on the Ubuntu forums that covers this in detail). The former is the fate that befell the mighty Ultra 20 I use to develop JWS apps (ok, app).
The linux32 route worked well enough for those specific applications when I tried it, but I eventually gave up on that arrangement because the 32 bit Firefox was unable to use the 64 bit plugins that come with the distribution (e.g. archive manager).
Right you are! The emacs-unicode-2 branch does display all the glyphs (some of them are damn ugly, but that's a different issue). And despite someone else's report that it's not doing subpixel rendering, it appears to be doing so for me. Sweet.
Now I'll have to look more closely at some of the other annoyances: emacs is using xml-mode instead of nxml-mode, despite my ~/.emacs configurations to the contrary and some underlying change has broken n3-mode. Ahh, the bleeding edge.
Thanks, guys!
You might also want to have a look at the Deja Vu fonts, which are the Open Source community's continuing extensions to Bitstream (including better Unicode coverage and some glyph fixes). To my untrained (and not particularly discerning) eye, Deja Vu is a slight improvement on Bitstream, although it's standard weights are, if anything, a bit lighter again than Bitstream, so that may annoy you.
I'm not a Debian user nor an emacs user, so I'm not sure how smooth the integration will be (or whether it just ends up proving Tim's inadvertent point that Emacs users have to suffer more). Fedora has had Deja Vu packages available as an extra download for a few months now, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's just an apt-get away in Debian land, too.
Take a look at the Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer’s Fonts. After Vera Sans Mono, which I consider the most gorgeous fixed width font of all time, I am also fond of Anonymous. Andale Mono runs a distant third – not because I don’t like it much, but simply because it just can’t compete in that pile.
May wanna take these on a spin.
Reading the full-text version of the feed in Opera, the image didn't appear (although it clearly appears on the Web page). I wonder if there is a relative path issue in the feed. Possible? Thanks, Cheers, Tony.
Opera ignores xml:base on feed entries?
For some reason I find anti-aliasing to be hard on the eyes with the smaller fonts I prefer. Maybe that'll change with an LCD and its subpixeling.
I always find myself going back to X's 'fixed' font, aka '6x13' and '-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1'.
Here's the package pre-built for Dapper (currently downloading, so I haven't tested it yet):
For about four years I used Andale Mono inside emacs. I was mostly happy with it. I think it is vector based (not bitmapped), but I'm not sure. At small point sizes, YV is hard to distinguish.
A few months ago I switched to Dina. Bitmapped, but I like it better. If you try it, this might help:
(setq default-frame-alist (append default-frame-alist ; '((font . "-*-Andale Mono-normal-r-*-*-11-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-2"))))) '((font . "-raster-Dina-normal-r-normal-normal-10-75-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1"))))
I use very clean bitmap font "Fixed Etl 14pt" in emacs that looks cleaner than any antialised font, especially on LCD monitors. I would be glad to always have option to use this bitmap font.
See: screenshot