From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Bold font hides end of previous character
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:01:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4607D23A.4060000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0703260626g5922fa9exadaedb585d9aab67@mail.gmail.com>
Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On 3/26/07, LENNART BORGMAN <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> wrote:
>
>> > Do you have ClearType on?
>>
>> Yes
>
> Does it happen also with ClearType off? (I think you could've tried
> this without me asking it ;-)
Ehum, no. I thought there was no use in trying that, but no, it does not
happen with ClearType off.
So now I have some reasons having ClearType on and at least one having
it off ;-|
>> but it still may be a problem with the KVM switch again.
>
> Do you mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch?
Yes.
>> Just checked on another display and I do not see that problem
>> there. (However later is w2k and the one where I see the
>> problem is XP.)
>
> So you didn't really check on "another display", but another computer
> setup... And AFAIK, W2K does not support ClearType.
Yes, a totally different setup. No ClearType, no KVM, w2k.
> Does it happen with the stock CVS Emacs too? Five months ago I
> committed a patch from Ben North that could be related (Ben's patch
> definitely fixed a problem with bold faces in ClearType-enabled
> Windows, BTW).
Yes, it happens with the stock CVS Emacs too. (I always - tbh nearly -
with the stock CVS Emacs first. Even if I see no reason that there
should be any difference.)
> 2006-10-27 Ben North <ben@redfrontdoor.org> (tiny change)
>
> * w32term.c (x_draw_glyph_string_foreground): Set background mode
> to TRANSPARENT before using overstrike to simulate bold faces.
>
> * xfaces.c (best_matching_font): Fix logic to decide whether to
> use overstriking to simulate bold-face (it was reversed).
CVS Emacs from 2007-03-21.
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2007-03-26 13:26 ` Bold font hides end of previous character Juanma Barranquero
2007-03-26 14:01 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-03-26 14:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-03-26 15:20 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-26 15:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-03-26 15:51 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-26 22:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-03-26 23:05 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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