[Fwd: Re: Some letters get cut off]

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

I have forwarded both your messages to Emacs Devel.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Some letters get cut off
Date: 	Sat, 06 Aug 2005 15:34:59 +0200
From: 	Eric Lilja <mindcooler_thisshouldberemoved@gmail.com>
Organization: 	Island, Linkoping University, Sweden
To: 	help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Newsgroups: 	gnu.emacs.help
References: 	<dd2ch2$c6n$1@news.island.liu.se>



Eric Lilja wrote:
> Hello, I'm using GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of
> 2005-07-07 and I'm having a font problem. Some letters get their
> width cut off at the right-hand side. Just a few pixels, but still
> very annoying. The image found here exhibits the problem:
> http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~mikas493/cutoff.png
>
> As you can see the D in HWND get cut off at a number of places, also
> the K in CALLBACK.
>
> The problem occurs for both capital and non-capital letters, but may
> be a bit more frequent for capital letters.
>
> The font setting in my .emacs file is as follows:
> (set-default-font
> "-outline-Crisp-normal-r-normal-normal-16-120-96-96-c-70-iso8859-1")
>
> I was hoping someone might have an idea what's wrong and an idea how
> to fix it. I'm still very much a novice, I'm afraid.

I tried upgrading to the very latest version of cvs emacs but that didn't 
solve the problem. But then I did solve the problem by reading up on the 
font itself...it didn't like the bold setting.

>
> Thanks for any replies!
>
> / E