From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: Bold font hides end of previous character Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:01:30 +0200 Message-ID: <4607D23A.4060000@gmail.com> References: <49be4d49d502.49d50249be4d@net.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174917734 29390 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2007 14:02:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:02:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Emacs-Devel To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 26 16:02:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HVplf-0000h2-JG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:01:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVpnu-0007eQ-KT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:04:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVpni-0007Lu-D3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:03:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVpnf-0007Ft-FB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:03:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVpnd-0007Dd-VH; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:03:53 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HVplN-0006sV-QW; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:61241 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVplL-00038V-4w; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:01:32 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000728-0, 2007-03-26), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HVplL-00038V-4w. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HVplL-00038V-4w e9c66f4741134fc832e71d8fe6be25f2 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:68604 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:17780 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On 3/26/07, LENNART BORGMAN wrote: > >> > Do you have ClearType on? >> >> Yes > > Does it happen also with ClearType off? (I think you could've tried > this without me asking it ;-) Ehum, no. I thought there was no use in trying that, but no, it does not happen with ClearType off. So now I have some reasons having ClearType on and at least one having it off ;-| >> but it still may be a problem with the KVM switch again. > > Do you mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch? Yes. >> Just checked on another display and I do not see that problem >> there. (However later is w2k and the one where I see the >> problem is XP.) > > So you didn't really check on "another display", but another computer > setup... And AFAIK, W2K does not support ClearType. Yes, a totally different setup. No ClearType, no KVM, w2k. > Does it happen with the stock CVS Emacs too? Five months ago I > committed a patch from Ben North that could be related (Ben's patch > definitely fixed a problem with bold faces in ClearType-enabled > Windows, BTW). Yes, it happens with the stock CVS Emacs too. (I always - tbh nearly - with the stock CVS Emacs first. Even if I see no reason that there should be any difference.) > 2006-10-27 Ben North (tiny change) > > * w32term.c (x_draw_glyph_string_foreground): Set background mode > to TRANSPARENT before using overstrike to simulate bold faces. > > * xfaces.c (best_matching_font): Fix logic to decide whether to > use overstriking to simulate bold-face (it was reversed). CVS Emacs from 2007-03-21.