From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: hanging punctuation Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:05:33 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200304211605.h3LG5Ydv029449@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <20030421.123859.26921649.wl@gnu.org> <200304211342.h3LDgw0r028832@rum.cs.yale.edu> <20030421.154944.41646541.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050941883 32035 80.91.224.249 (21 Apr 2003 16:18:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:18:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 18:18:02 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 197dzV-0008KZ-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:18:01 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 197e4M-0007Pe-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:23:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197dxc-0003JN-05 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:16:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197dws-00037d-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197dwQ-0002nO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:14:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197dnS-0008O3-00; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:05:34 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3LG5Yx6029451; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:05:34 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h3LG5Ydv029449; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:05:34 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Werner LEMBERG Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13327 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13327 > > > Set the right margin to 72 characters and do C-u M-q: > > > > > > The file found in "include/freetype/config/ftoption.h" contains a list > > > of commented configuration macros that can be toggled by developers to > > > indicate which features should be active in their build of the library. > > > > > > Note the hanging final full stop. Basically, this is very nice > > > from a typographical point of view, nevertheless, it is a bug > > > since you can replace the `.' with any other character and it > > > still sticks out one character. > > > > When reporting such bugs it is immensely useful if you can tell us > > whether or not the bug that was present in older versions and if so > > which one is the latest one you know worked correctly. > > I've no idea, sorry. I believe that this behaviour is rather recent > -- at least, I've never noticed it before, and I'm quite sensitive to > such things. This is much better than nothing. Thank you, Stefan