From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Poor font rendering example Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:58:26 +0200 Message-ID: <87iqwmdbbx.fsf@escher.local.home> References: <874p87vagt.fsf@escher.local.home> <87skvrc9pb.fsf@escher.local.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212753547 17417 80.91.229.12 (6 Jun 2008 11:59:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:59:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 06 13:59:49 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 1K4aba-0006jq-EO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:59:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50197 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4aan-0001jv-TS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:58:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4aai-0001iT-VT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:58:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4aag-0001fs-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:58:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52075 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4aag-0001fY-Kq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:58:42 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50127 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K4aag-0005Ho-6y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:58:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K4aaa-0006eZ-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:58:36 +0000 Original-Received: from i5387df1a.versanet.de ([83.135.223.26]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:58:36 +0000 Original-Received: from stephen.berman by i5387df1a.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:58:36 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i5387df1a.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:98511 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:22578 Archived-At: On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:37:01 +0900 Kenichi Handa wrote: > In article <87skvrc9pb.fsf@escher.local.home>, Stephen Berman writes: > >> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:38:44 +0900 Kenichi Handa wrote: >> > In article <874p87vagt.fsf@escher.local.home>, Stephen Berman writes: >> > >>>> 1. Using the xft font backend, I start Emacs like this: >>>> emacs -Q -fn "-b&h-Luxi Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-0-iso8859-1" test.txt >> > >> > Please tell me from where I can get that font. > >> I'll email what I believe to be the right file to you off list. > > With the fonts you sent me, I confirmed that bad rendering > with the pixelsize 14. But, the same rendering problem > occurs in gedit's font selection window (see the attached > image). So, I think it's a problem of font itself or of > freetype library. Ah, yes I see that here too. Sorry it didn't occur to me to check outside of Emacs before wasting your time and list bandwidth. But thanks for confirming the problem, and that it's not an Emacs problem. I'll check the Xorg bug tracker. Steve Berman