From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Torsten Bronger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Strange "boldification" of letters Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 13:32:11 +0200 Organization: Phoenix Foundation Message-ID: <87od7e5r9g.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210444990 16747 80.91.229.12 (10 May 2008 18:43:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 18:43:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 10 20:43:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Juu2q-0003hf-Gm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 May 2008 20:43:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38689 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Juu26-000422-5O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 May 2008 14:42:58 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.dfncis.de aW0YbmTi185+Fn5O15dAywZ4PtDz8lahVO5hJ254DaVBQ87kwGz4CjRrWr X-Orig-Path: wilson.homeunix.com!news Cancel-Lock: sha1:N01EBjYH9vMehMbPcfwHou1ZDIY= sha1:s0o6VTuOWUobFSWNoE30vjHoZ2I= X-PGP-Fingerprint: C5C8 D6E2 79D2 EFE9 8C0F 6D77 D5E3 CEFC 9F51 6B77 X-PGP-Affinity: will accept encrypted message for GPG X-Home-Page: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bronger X-Face: +wpw"|jN2Fde|7_lKBa0\7!_6suIE_m! x)'S9ytBu8tkt'k779jbzQ4o|p+@H_DCrIdnKG]E*w X-Binford: 6100 (more power) X-Accept-Language: de, en Jabber-ID: bronger@jabber.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158503 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 10 May 2008 14:42:02 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53876 Archived-At: Hallöchen! I observe the following effect with my Emacs 23.0.60.4 on a Gnome desktop: http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/Torsten.Bronger/emacs.png As you can see, the letters "i" and "r" to the left of the cursor (and the preceding line) are much bolder than the others. I achieved this by pressing "up arrow" and "down arrow" many many times, alternating point between the "n" and the "o" (so, the right-hand-side neighbours of the bold letters). By doing this, the letters became gradually bolder. The typeface is "monospace-14", the cursor is non-blinking. As you can see, sub-pixel anti-aliasing is switched on with Gnome. Only some letters are affected. i, r, x, s, k, w, as far as I can see. But "m", for example, stays thin. What's going on here? Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus Jabber ID: bronger@jabber.org (See http://ime.webhop.org for further contact info.)