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Peter Petersen <ppetersen@despammed.com> writes:

> Somewhere while googling I read that fonts such as bitstream vera sans
> mono don't look good in emacs, because emacs doesn't work with Xft,
> whereas this font looks great in applications like opera, firefox etc.

You could try to get a freetype library with truetype hinting enabled,
perhaps Bitstream Vera Sans Mono looks better then.

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