From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font size innacuracies (Windows)
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 22:06:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o82ojf10.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86h78gn6jp.fsf@csic.es> (juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com)
> From: Juan José García-Ripoll
> <juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 08:43:22 +0100
>
> I suspect that the variations are due to VSCode's display
> engine. I just realized that the same discrepancies (more
> pleasant rendering of Consolas) can be seen by embedding the *.cc files
> in HTML (as <pre></pre>) and displaying them on Microsoft Edge, btw.
Maybe they use kerning, i.e. they run all the text they display
through a text-shaping engine (DirectWrite etc.). Emacs doesn't; we
only use a shaping engine for scripts that require complex text
shaping, and then only for some sequences of characters.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-02 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-01 10:24 Font size innacuracies (Windows) Juan José García-Ripoll
2022-03-01 14:21 ` Phillip Susi
2022-03-01 15:16 ` Juan José García-Ripoll
2022-03-01 15:26 ` Robert Pluim
2022-03-01 15:48 ` Juan José García-Ripoll
2022-03-01 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-02 7:43 ` Juan José García-Ripoll
2022-03-02 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-03-01 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-02 7:19 ` Juan José García-Ripoll
2022-03-02 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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