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From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, 54646@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54646: 29.0.50; set-fontset-font and font clipping issues
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 10:19:24 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877d5mwkob.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tu8rs3uf.fsf@gmail.com> (Visuwesh's message of "Sat, 11 Jun 2022 19:24:16 +0530")

[Saturday June 11, 2022] Visuwesh wrote:

> [வெள்ளி ஏப்ரல் 22, 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> I think this might be a cairo+pango problem.  My suspicion is due to
> this bug report https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/1892 --
> although I don't see the problem with English text as shown in the
> screenshots.
>
> I tried to turn off font metrics in cairo by applying the following
> patch,
>
>
>
> but that did not solve the issue.
>
> However, I have been using the xft+harfbuzz combo for a ~week now and I
> can say with confidence that I don't experience this strange issue.  I
> would highly appreciate it if the decision to remove the xft backend
> could be delayed until a solution comes up [1].  Although the font
> rendering is worse, the text stays readable at all font sizes.
>
>
> [1] ./configure --with-cairo says,
>
>     configure: WARNING: This configuration uses libXft, which has a number of
>         font rendering issues, and is being considered for removal in the
>         next release of Emacs.  Please consider using Cairo graphics +
>         HarfBuzz text shaping instead (they are auto-detected if the
>         relevant development headers are installed).

I forgot to mention: I tried the patch with cairo 1.17.4 to no avail either.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-12  4:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-31  3:37 bug#54646: 29.0.50; set-fontset-font and font clipping issues Visuwesh
2022-03-31  5:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-31  7:03   ` Visuwesh
2022-03-31  7:11     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-31  7:35       ` Visuwesh
2022-03-31  8:45       ` Visuwesh
2022-03-31  9:04         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-31  9:29           ` Visuwesh
2022-03-31  9:41             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-31 12:16               ` Visuwesh
2022-03-31 14:04                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-31 13:44               ` Visuwesh
2022-03-31 14:10                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-31 14:12                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-31 15:07                   ` Visuwesh
2022-03-31 16:49                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-31 17:38                       ` Robert Pluim
2022-04-01  1:05                         ` Visuwesh
2022-04-01  3:08                           ` Visuwesh
2022-04-01  8:49                             ` Robert Pluim
2022-04-01 10:54                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-01 11:38                                 ` Visuwesh
2022-04-01 12:14                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-01 13:10                                     ` Visuwesh
2022-04-01 14:19                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-01 14:58                                 ` Visuwesh
2022-04-01 15:27                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-01 16:40                                     ` Visuwesh
2022-04-01 17:58                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-03  9:15                                         ` Visuwesh
2022-04-03 10:06                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-03 10:26                                             ` Visuwesh
2022-04-03 10:50                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-03 11:10                                                 ` Visuwesh
2022-04-21 14:50                                                   ` Visuwesh
2022-04-22  7:23                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-22 10:46                                                       ` Visuwesh
2022-04-22 10:48                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-11 13:54                                                           ` Visuwesh
2022-06-12  1:34                                                             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-12  5:55                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-12  4:49                                                             ` Visuwesh [this message]
2022-06-12  5:53                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-12  7:47                                                               ` Visuwesh
2022-06-12 10:16                                                                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-08 11:48                                                             ` Visuwesh
2022-10-08 12:42                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-08 12:53                                                                 ` Visuwesh
2022-10-08 13:00                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-09 11:31                                                                   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-09 11:59                                                                     ` Visuwesh
2022-03-31  7:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-31  8:47       ` Visuwesh

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