From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Hacker2018@jovi.net>
Cc: control@debbugs.gnu.org, 35157@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35157: 26.1; MacOSX Fixed Width Osaka Regular-Mono is variable width
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2019 16:41:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190406154128.GA1786@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DEB6ED3C-4DC9-4AEE-8978-C937C52D7634@jovi.net>
tags 35157 notabug
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On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 08:32:13AM -0400, Devon Sean McCullough wrote:
> In MacOSX Emacs: Options > Set Default Font... > Fixed Width > Osaka
>
> The "Osaka" font is misplaced in the "Fixed Width" collection:
> spaces are narrower than letters and ->
> <- tab is three numerals wide.
> 0123456789
> Variable Width fonts shouldn’t be advertised as Fixed Width.
Unfortunately that font selection dialogue is a macOS feature, not an
Emacs one, so we’re not able to modify its behaviour. I can only
assume that the font incorrectly identifies itself as fixed width.
> P.S. Emacs shows characters like (insert ?\N{THUMBS UP SIGN}) 👍 as
> blank space - surely some sort of visible glyph, fallback font or
> highlight in the fashion of makefile-space would be better?
If you install Symbola (http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/) then it
should act as a fall‐back.
--
Alan Third
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2019-04-05 12:32 bug#35157: 26.1; MacOSX Fixed Width Osaka Regular-Mono is variable width Devon Sean McCullough
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