From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: Bold font hides end of previous character Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:20:18 +0200 Message-ID: <4607E4B2.3040906@gmail.com> References: <49be4d49d502.49d50249be4d@net.lu.se> <4607D23A.4060000@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174922578 20947 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2007 15:22:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:22:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Emacs-Devel To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 26 17:22:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HVr1v-0004RF-Er for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:22:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVr4A-0006Gp-RH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:25:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVr1z-0002zq-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:22:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVr1z-0002xT-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:22:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVr1t-0002l7-9L; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:22:41 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HVqzc-0003ZG-Tl; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:61199 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVqza-0002qn-9f; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:20:19 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000728-0, 2007-03-26), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HVqza-0002qn-9f. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HVqza-0002qn-9f 135dbaa3a4feceaf423e81a85ff4c0d3 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:68616 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:17782 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero wrote: > There are issues with ClearType; see for example this item from > admin/FOR-RELEASE: > > ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind > Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related > to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem. Yes, I have seen some traces of background coloring remaining on the screen, but I wonder whether that is an overlay only thing. I will try to observe it again. > BTW, what font are you using in your tests? Or does it happen with any > font? The default. I have never tried changing font, actually. If you have any suggestions for testing then please point me to some quick recipe for changing fonts to.