From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: Jonathan Kleinehellefort <jk@molb.org>, 6718@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6718: 23.2; Should align glyphs according to grid in ansi-term
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:48:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rgpyboy.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmm7X-91MoBFrH_Mj7aNHdi7fkYcOV1XUfErWv_OgWffNA@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:25:50 -0800")
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> Jonathan Kleinehellefort <jk@molb.org> writes:
>
>> I came across this when I tried using the font Inconsolata inside
>> ansi-term. Inconsolata does not cover a couple of special Unicode
>> characters, some of which frequently show up in the output of various
>> terminal applications.
>>
>> Emacs will then fall back on some other font with completely different
>> geometry for those, destroying the grid layout of the buffer.
>>
>> Steps to reproduce:
>>
>> 1. run "emacs -Q"
>> 2. M-x term
>> 4. type "pstree" into the shell
>> 5. Choose "Inconsolata" as your font
>>
>> Result:
>>
>> Characters now have non-uniform width and height. Note that the pretty
>> tree drawing gets destroyed.
>>
>> Expected result:
>>
>> Glyphs should be aligned in a grid.
>>
>> Using a more comprehensive font (e.g. DejaVu Sans Mono) does not solve
>> this completely, as you can still get the same problem with e.g. Chinese
>> characters.
>
> Is there really anything that can be done about this, besides a complete
> redesign of how fonts work in Emacs?
Is there any overlap here with https://debbugs.gnu.org/44664?
--
Basil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-19 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-24 15:57 bug#6718: 23.2; Should align glyphs according to grid in ansi-term Jonathan Kleinehellefort
2020-11-19 4:25 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-19 8:48 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2020-11-19 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-19 15:32 ` Stefan Kangas
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