Font used in menu bar of GNU Emacs 22.3

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

When I discovered that GNU Emacs 24.x from CVS (or rather BZR now)  
uses Emacs.pane.dialog.faceName or Emacs.pane.menubar.faceName I set  
Emacs*pane.menubar.font to a quite legible font, -linotype-optima- 
black-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Then the X server, XQuartz 2.5.1 (xorg- 
server 1.8.99.905), was updated and started to use Freetype 2.4.x  
instead of 2.3.12. The titles in menu bar and the entries inside the  
menus rendered ugly, illegibly, although 'i' was now reproduced as two  
dark areas instead of one, shaped like an 'l'. Now so many other  
glyphs had "beards" of additional pixels in all directions which made  
them illegible.

I can understand why GNU Emacs 23.2 is susceptible to this change in  
libfreetype, it uses this file. But why is GNU Emacs 22.3 showing the  
same illegible glyphs? It does not use libfreetype:

	/sw/lib/libXaw3d.7.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current  
version 7.0.0)
	/sw/lib/libgif.4.dylib (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version  
6.6.0)
	/sw/lib/libjpeg.62.dylib (compatibility version 63.0.0, current  
version 63.0.0)
	/sw/lib/libpng12.0.dylib (compatibility version 36.0.0, current  
version 36.0.0)
	/sw/lib/libtiff.3.dylib (compatibility version 12.0.0, current  
version 12.2.0)
	/sw/lib/ncurses/libncurses.5.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0,  
current version 5.0.0)
	/usr/X11/lib/libICE.6.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current  
version 10.0.0)
	/usr/X11/lib/libSM.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current  
version 7.1.0)
	/usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib (compatibility version 9.0.0, current  
version 9.0.0)
	/usr/X11/lib/libXext.6.dylib (compatibility version 11.0.0, current  
version 11.0.0)
	/usr/X11/lib/libXmu.6.dylib (compatibility version 9.0.0, current  
version 9.0.0)
	/usr/X11/lib/libXpm.4.dylib (compatibility version 16.0.0, current  
version 16.0.0)
	/usr/X11/lib/libXt.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current  
version 7.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current  
version 111.1.4)
	/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current  
version 1.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version  
1.2.3)

Is the X server "cleverly" using libfreetype to render the font and  
then pass these bitmaps to GNU Emacs 22.3?


Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard), PPC hardware, Xaw3d instead of GTK.

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Greetings

  Pete

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