HarfBuzz text shaping). If built with Cairo drawing, there are also
three potentially available font backends on X: @code{x}, @code{ftcr}
(the FreeType font driver on Cairo), and @code{ftcrhb} (the FreeType
-font driver on Cairo with HarfBuzz text shaping). Note that the
-@code{ftcr} and @code{ftcrhb} drivers are mutually exclusive (and
-similarly for @code{xft} and @code{xfthb}), with the choice being made
-at build time. On MS-Windows, there are currently three available
-font backends: @code{gdi} (the core MS-Windows font driver),
-@code{uniscribe} (font driver for OTF and TTF fonts with text shaping
-by the Uniscribe engine), and @code{harfbuzz} (font driver for OTF and
-TTF fonts with HarfBuzz text shaping) (@pxref{Windows Fonts,,, emacs,
-The GNU Emacs Manual}). On other systems, there is only one available
-font backend, so it does not make sense to modify this frame
-parameter.
+font driver on Cairo with HarfBuzz text shaping). When Emacs is built
+with HarfBuzz, the default font driver is @code{ftcrhb}, although use
+of the @code{ftcr} driver is still possible, but not recommended. On
+MS-Windows, there are currently three available font backends:
+@code{gdi} (the core MS-Windows font driver), @code{uniscribe} (font
+driver for OTF and TTF fonts with text shaping by the Uniscribe
+engine), and @code{harfbuzz} (font driver for OTF and TTF fonts with
+HarfBuzz text shaping) (@pxref{Windows Fonts,,, emacs, The GNU Emacs
+Manual}). The @code{harfbuzz} driver is similarly recommended. On
+other systems, there is only one available font backend, so it does
+not make sense to modify this frame parameter.
@vindex background-mode@r{, a frame parameter}
@item background-mode