From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Strange "boldification" of letters Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 10:10:27 -0400 Message-ID: <87tzh3txyk.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <87od7e5r9g.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> <87bq3ej64y.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: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210601502 4449 80.91.229.12 (12 May 2008 14:11:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:11:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Torsten Bronger Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 12 16:12:09 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 1JvYkv-0001PW-M4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 16:11:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JvYkD-0003hx-3d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 10:11:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JvYjv-0003hn-Ri for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 10:10:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JvYjt-0003hO-AB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 10:10:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56792 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JvYjt-0003hL-4m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 10:10:53 -0400 Original-Received: from phsmgmx10.partners.org ([155.52.251.101]:44749) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JvYjs-0004oL-7u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 10:10:52 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,473,1204520400"; d="scan'208";a="141940569" Original-Received: from phsxcon5.mgh.harvard.edu (HELO PHSXCON5.partners.org) ([132.183.130.38]) by phsmgmx10.partners.org with ESMTP; 12 May 2008 10:10:50 -0400 Original-Received: from PHSXMB8.partners.org ([170.223.201.47]) by PHSXCON5.partners.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 12 May 2008 10:10:30 -0400 Original-Received: from W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu.partners.org ([132.183.29.121]) by PHSXMB8.partners.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 12 May 2008 10:10:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87bq3ej64y.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> (Torsten Bronger's message of "Sat, 10 May 2008 21:44:45 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 May 2008 14:10:30.0535 (UTC) FILETIME=[EF8F7170:01C8B439] X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:53928 Archived-At: Torsten Bronger writes: > Hall=F6chen! > > Reiner Steib writes: > >> On Sat, May 10 2008, Torsten Bronger wrote: >> >>> I observe the following effect with my Emacs 23.0.60.4 on a Gnome [...] >> >> ,----[ INSTALL.CVS ] >> | Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs >> | should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help >> | or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will >> | send it to the proper place. >> `---- > > I know this passage very well. But in my opinion it'd be good to > ask the big audience whether it's a bug in Emacs at all before I > post it there. I didn't consider it a bug, since it was a matter of font choice. I had that problem in Emacs from CVS on Slackware 12.0 using Dejavu fonts. I switched to Terminus and everything is razor-sharp now. Smoothed fonts got me hooked on Emacs from CVS, and now I don't use them. All the other features keep me using it, however. Joel --=20 Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109 Public key: http://pgp.mit.edu http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj Ineffective security measure: The information transmitted in this electronic communication is intended on= ly for the person or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain confidenti= al and/or privileged material. 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