Understanding how the fonts work on Unix isn't simple. I had never thought when starting this research that this field was this deep. Not only is it overwhelming, but the information around the subject is also not easily digestable. The last two weeks I've been researching this and in this podcast you'll barely find but the essen...
Emacs is open source. Like, you know, really open source. GPLv3-or-later open source. Which is neat in some abstract continuity of software freedom of rights sense. But it’s also neat in a very concrete sense: we just ran into a problem with Emacs, and we can fix it. Quick refresher: I’m trying to write tests with pictures in them, but when I scale the pictures up, they get really blurry: Seems like an easy fix, right? I’m not going to try to make this behavior configurable or alter the image API or something complicated. I’m just going to change Emacs to unconditionally use nearest-neighbor resampling instead of unconditionally using bilinear resampling. Should be a one-line change. But, of course, that one line change carries with it a heavy price. Because we’re going to have to figure out how to build Emacs.
Improvements to the Chafa terminal graphics package: Kitty and iTerm2 protocols, newly supported terminals, new Unicode symbols, and more.
llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.