From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-27 7ec66a5: Document spacing issues with Xft for some fonts Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:57:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20200114095124.30450.15618@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20200114095126.2A901212AE@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="154313"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Robert Pluim To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 14 14:59:07 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1irMio-000dfU-Ul for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:59:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40250 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1irMin-0000EC-9z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:59:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52432) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1irMhn-00077q-KP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:58:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1irMhj-000163-Cs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:58:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:60289) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1irMhj-00015d-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:57:59 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 70CEF44DDE6; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:57:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id EBDD444DDDD; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:57:55 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1579010276; bh=fSJT8CLVBp3pPHkft/2O1uG7/Mk/SUqe9VSVFQmgYSs=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=jP+CK8olw8dv8yQZsU0jM8u58eAUbb3JN7wLs+76DFN5Rj03Mx/J3/nJ/xyrbmYr0 tY9klDNn4Z5I3C8sAgR2S7gN9TW+AaVXpB7DJdmi7HS+DqhVH8P9X6MaRsgfxpn/Zw TR9aAPneZyZaSBVhIClsbvGnv9iw3qO0ZLjDsxe/OBOLDYKfqAE1TqcEyasxT7bn+1 H/3sffuPYmIfq3sMOOCrKMKLlKtt4GHvSHc4L6lKIXWZy5HHICyzBj7zseG3dQQb6l Y4zuQmwq/IixWwLs/mVj3e3fzzlGy7lTt0kvt9uILc+2+XKvxZJD+sHS0JQ7kzrxBA aFGqHF3cp7JxQ== Original-Received: from pastel (76-10-153-247.dsl.teksavvy.com [76.10.153.247]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BBE0212090D; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:57:55 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20200114095126.2A901212AE@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> (Robert Pluim's message of "Tue, 14 Jan 2020 04:51:25 -0500 (EST)") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:244241 Archived-At: > +** 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 > + and > + > +for more discussion. Does the use of Harfbuzz affect the result? Stefan