unofficial mirror of emacs-devel@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-27 7ec66a5: Document spacing issues with Xft for some fonts
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:31:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83imle5a1p.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2muaqruk6.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:17:45 +0100)

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:17:45 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>     Stefan> Does the use of Harfbuzz affect the result?
> 
> I see this in an XFT build both with and without Harfbuzz.

Which is expected: we only call HarfBuzz for character composition,
not for "simple" text such as ASCII.  Otherwise, we use the glyph
metrics as returned by the lower-level facilities, in this case the
Xft API that returns the "text extents".



      reply	other threads:[~2020-01-14 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200114095124.30450.15618@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20200114095126.2A901212AE@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-01-14 10:45   ` emacs-27 7ec66a5: Document spacing issues with Xft for some fonts Robert Pluim
2020-01-14 16:00     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-14 16:27       ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-14 13:57   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-14 14:17     ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-14 15:31       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=83imle5a1p.fsf@gnu.org \
    --to=eliz@gnu.org \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    --cc=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
    --cc=rpluim@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).