From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: emacs-27 7ec66a5: Document spacing issues with Xft for some fonts
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:57:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsgkirvid.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200114095126.2A901212AE@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> (Robert Pluim's message of "Tue, 14 Jan 2020 04:51:25 -0500 (EST)")
> +** Under X, some characters are unexpectedly wide.
> +
> +e.g. recent versions of Inconsolata show this issue for almost all of
> +its characters. Due to what is probably an Xft bug, the determination
> +of the width of some characters is incorrect. One workaround is to
> +build emacs with Cairo enabled ("configure --with-cairo" and have the
> +appropriate Cairo development packages installed) as this
> +configuration does not suffer from this problem. See
> +<https://github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata/issues/42> and
> +<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2020-01/msg00456.html>
> +for more discussion.
Does the use of Harfbuzz affect the result?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-14 13:57 UTC|newest]
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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 [this message]
2020-01-14 14:17 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-14 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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