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From: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@t-online.de>
To: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, gerd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mouse highlighting and fonts
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 10:21:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54CEA429-3099-4A1C-8C23-77A75D622C74@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wly75zuh1g.wl%mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>

> It is the very most essential part to display italic glyphs without
> chipping.

Yes, that's correct.

If you check Emacs versions < 21, you'll find that
text using slanted fonts was effectively impossible to edit because
overlapping parts of slanted characters were clipped und the
display was effectively garbled after a few such operations.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-25  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-23 15:09 Mouse highlighting and fonts Chong Yidong
2008-05-23 19:53 ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-24 23:02   ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-25  2:01   ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-25  4:46     ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-25  8:21       ` Gerd Möllmann [this message]
2008-05-27  8:58     ` Johan Bockgård
2008-05-27  3:26   ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-27 13:24     ` Stephen Berman

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