From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Alex Khesin <alex@khesin.com>, 22780@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22780: 25.1.50; wrong average width picked for bold face for 7x13 X11 font
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:15:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkSbrfacq=aapuKqDw0=+dDDqBGyaoLj8=M92U9TjH6HLw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPt6kTOJ4VDkoAjm96hSQ_oSQXvXjR_2RnFcpJsBRg70vijuxQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Alex Khesin <alex@khesin.com> schrieb am Di., 23. Feb. 2016 um 08:20 Uhr:
> emacs 25 choses fonts with different average width for 7x13 font, making
> bold text take more horizontal space. This is particularly a problem when
> using themes like https://github.com/bbatsov/zenburn-emacs which use bold
> to hihglight matching parenthesis in show-paren-mode, causing characters to
> shift as the cursor is moved from a parenthesis to a non-parenthesis
> character.
>
> Repro that demonstrates the problem in both 25 pretest 1 and current head
> (but is perfectly ok in emacs 24):
>
> $ emacs -Q --eval '(progn (set-face-font '\''default "7x13") (print
> (face-font "default")) (print (face-font "bold")))'
>
> shows
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1
> -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
>
> Notice the jump from 70 to 80 before the iso8859 component - that's the
> average width, and that's what I believe is causing bold characters to
> render wider than non-bold ones. Both are 70 in emacs 24.
>
>
This appears to be a regression from Emacs 24. Would be great if somebody
who has knowledge about this area could look into this.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-23 5:41 bug#22780: 25.1.50; wrong average width picked for bold face for 7x13 X11 font Alex Khesin
2016-09-14 14:15 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2016-09-14 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-14 19:50 ` Andrew M. Bishop
2017-03-15 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-17 6:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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