The Xft library provides anti-aliased fonts for X11 which greatly enhances the look of Tk and other programs on X11.

See [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xft] for details of Xft.

[Xft support] can be enabled for newer Tk versions by passing `--enable-xft` to configure when building Tk.

[[add info about Xft , which I presume is a library interface to
[FreeType] font handling.]]

To add xft support to [Tclkit], read the docs at [http://www.equi4.com/kitbuild.html] about customization and the genkit.local script.

[AMG]: `--enable-xft` is on by default for [Tk].  I always have to remember to pass `--disable-xft` because I don't like it. :^(  I prefer the appearance of the bitmapped fonts over the antialiased fonts.  Can I access the bitmapped fonts with [Xft support] enabled?

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