@@ -2294,14 +2294,17 @@ variable do not take effect immediately, only when you specify the
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@item font-backend
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A list of symbols, specifying the @dfn {font backends } to use for
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drawing characters on the frame, in order of priority. In Emacs built
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- without Cairo drawing on X, there are currently three available font
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- backends: @code {x } (the X core font driver), @code {xft } (the Xft font
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- driver), and @code {xfthb } (the Xft font driver with HarfBuzz text
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- shaping). If built with the Cairo drawing, there are also three
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- available font backends on X: @code {x }, @code {ftcr } (the FreeType font
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- driver on Cairo), and @code {ftcrhb } (the FreeType font driver on Cairo
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- with HarfBuzz text shaping). On MS-Windows, there are currently three
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- available font backends: @code {gdi } (the core MS-Windows font driver),
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+ without Cairo drawing on X, there are currently three potentially
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+ available font backends: @code {x } (the X core font driver), @code {xft }
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+ (the Xft font driver), and @code {xfthb } (the Xft font driver with
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+ HarfBuzz text shaping). If built with Cairo drawing, there are also
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+ three potentially available font backends on X: @code {x }, @code {ftcr }
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+ (the FreeType font driver on Cairo), and @code {ftcrhb } (the FreeType
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+ font driver on Cairo with HarfBuzz text shaping). Note that the
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+ @code {ftcr } and @code {ftcrhb } drivers are mutually exclusive (and
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+ similarly for @code {xft } and @code {xfthb }), with the choice being made
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+ at build time. On MS-Windows, there are currently three available
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+ font backends: @code {gdi } (the core MS-Windows font driver),
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@code {uniscribe } (font driver for OTF and TTF fonts with text shaping
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by the Uniscribe engine), and @code {harfbuzz } (font driver for OTF and
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TTF fonts with HarfBuzz text shaping) (@pxref {Windows Fonts ,,, emacs ,
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