From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: crypto@timruffing.de, 67810@debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com
Subject: bug#67810: 29.1; fonts use synthetic bold on Linux / pgtk
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:44:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttngyqp6.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838r4sfeem.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 14 Jan 2024 11:33:05 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> There are faces that Emacs imposes that are not controlled by
> packages. For example, the buffer name on the mode line is displayed
> in bold, and changing that is not easy. Why cannot we allow users to
> tweak this issue by providing a simple variable? What are the
> downsides?
It can't be guaranteed that this variable will work, because Emacs is
not the only program synthesizing bold variants from fonts that don't
incorporate them. Moreover, little-used options that control these very
particular aspects of our font display tend to fall into disrepair: for
instance, Vvertical_centering_font_regexp didn't function on any system
besides X, until yours truly implemented it for Android, a state of
affairs that remained unnoticed for upwards of a decade.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-14 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-13 12:03 bug#67810: 29.1; fonts use synthetic bold on Linux / pgtk Tim Ruffing
2023-12-13 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-13 13:28 ` Tim Ruffing
2023-12-13 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-13 15:09 ` Tim Ruffing
2023-12-13 15:43 ` Tim Ruffing
2023-12-14 0:09 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-12-14 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-14 9:32 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-12-14 9:54 ` Tim Ruffing
2023-12-14 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-14 10:37 ` Tim Ruffing
2023-12-14 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-14 11:26 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-12-14 15:06 ` Tim Ruffing
2023-12-14 22:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-11 15:50 ` Tim Ruffing
2024-01-12 1:46 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 9:59 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 11:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 12:20 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 13:12 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-13 0:46 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-13 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-14 1:02 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-14 8:09 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14 9:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-14 13:44 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-01-14 14:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-14 14:19 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-15 13:11 ` Tim Ruffing
2024-01-13 6:37 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-14 0:55 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14 5:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-14 10:20 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14 12:21 ` Manuel Giraud via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14 14:10 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14 16:37 ` Manuel Giraud via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-15 0:36 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-15 13:56 ` Manuel Giraud via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-15 14:02 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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