From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerd_M=F6llmann?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mouse highlighting and fonts Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 10:21:07 +0200 Message-ID: <54CEA429-3099-4A1C-8C23-77A75D622C74@t-online.de> References: <878wy1giqs.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87tzgog5kd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87hccn9m6m.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211733938 888 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2008 16:45:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 16:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , gerd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 25 18:46:18 2008 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 1K0JMM-0001K9-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 May 2008 18:46:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K0JLc-0000S9-5l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 May 2008 12:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K0BTt-0007Vp-EH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 May 2008 04:21:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K0BTr-0007Tk-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 May 2008 04:21:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37703 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K0BTr-0007TY-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 May 2008 04:21:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout03.t-online.de ([194.25.134.81]:50664) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K0BTn-0000la-60; Sun, 25 May 2008 04:21:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fwd30.aul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 1K0BTi-0001pq-07; Sun, 25 May 2008 10:21:18 +0200 Original-Received: from [192.168.2.25] (Xj9cGuZFghK9xGIZPgTQHDZ9UGgtZ4WtlCOb4UAVlwLgvf7ahHPWdQajTm9RmE3wmf@[87.144.180.172]) by fwd30.t-online.de with esmtp id 1K0BTZ-1kLXl20; Sun, 25 May 2008 10:21:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-ID: Xj9cGuZFghK9xGIZPgTQHDZ9UGgtZ4WtlCOb4UAVlwLgvf7ahHPWdQajTm9RmE3wmf X-TOI-MSGID: df47f07e-2562-44e8-89a8-0c3b89e5bc3a X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 25 May 2008 12:45:23 -0400 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:97693 Archived-At: > It is the very most essential part to display italic glyphs without > chipping. Yes, that's correct. If you check Emacs versions < 21, you'll find that text using slanted fonts was effectively impossible to edit because overlapping parts of slanted characters were clipped und the display was effectively garbled after a few such operations.