From: John Owens <john_owens@yahoo.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: issues migrating to cocoa emacs (23.2) from carbon emacs (22)
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:22:31 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20100612T022200-88@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wl1vcdrvgh.wl%mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> writes:
>
> >>>>> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:29:49 +0000 (UTC), John Owens <john_owens <at>
yahoo.com> said:
>
> > To me the right pane (Carbon Emacs) looks a lot better than the left
> > pane (emacs 23). This is the "Inconsolata" font. It's boldface that
> > looks the worst to me. Perhaps this is a perception issue, but my
> > perception is 23 took a step backwards.
>
> That might be due to the difference in how to simulate bold-face for
> the fonts that don't have the "real" bold (e.g, Monaco). The Carbon
> port in Emacs 22 uses synthetic bold in ATSUI or Quickdraw Text, and
> the NS port uses overstriking.
That would be a sensible answer! IMHO, then, synthetic-bold >> overstriking. :)
JDO
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-12 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-10 23:30 issues migrating to cocoa emacs (23.2) from carbon emacs (22) John Owens
2010-06-11 3:06 ` David Reitter
2010-06-11 4:37 ` John Owens
2010-06-11 11:09 ` David Reitter
2010-06-11 13:49 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2010-06-11 13:58 ` issues migrating to cocoa emacs (23.2) from carbon emacs (22 David Reitter
2010-06-11 12:04 ` issues migrating to cocoa emacs (23.2) from carbon emacs (22) Stephen Eilert
2010-06-11 16:29 ` John Owens
2010-06-11 23:38 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-06-12 0:22 ` John Owens [this message]
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