From: Andrea Greselin <greselin.andrea@gmail.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: 39082@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39082: Inconsolata v3.000 has too wide spacing
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 17:56:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ_oJbYQekfEggqBW2WmhV-4TP9oZbiWHMoJ=ELUmoYyoFXjyQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2o8v7tihp.fsf@gmail.com>
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I've never built Emacs before (nor any other non-trivial program for that
matter). If you can instruct me on doing that I will try, otherwise I don't
have time to learn by myself now, I'm sorry.
Andrea
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 17:43, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:18:50 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> said:
>
> >> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> >> Cc: Andrea Greselin <greselin.andrea@gmail.com>,
> 39082@debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:27:32 +0100
> >>
> Eli> So the question now becomes how come we get such a large value.
> Looks
> Eli> like we somehow use the space-width value instead of the character
> Eli> glyph's width, not sure why. I guess stepping through the code
> I've
> Eli> shown from xdisp.c is still necessary to understand this.
> >>
> >> I can reproduce this, but I donʼt know how much effort we should
> spend
> >> getting to the bottom of it: a Cairo-enabled build (ie !XFT) does
> not
> >> have this problem.
>
> Eli> So I guess this is some kind of Xft bug? In that case, I think it
> Eli> would be enough to describe the Cairo workaround in etc/PROBLEMS,
> and
> Eli> close the bug with that.
>
> Itʼs either a bug or a limitation in the Xft interface. I see the
> width of characters coming back from XftGlyphExtents as 26, with all
> the other metrics as 0, so I donʼt think thereʼs much we can do.
>
> Andrea, does building emacs-27 configure '--with-cairo' fix this for
> you?
>
> Robert
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-13 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-11 10:03 bug#39082: Inconsolata v3.000 has too wide spacing Andrea Greselin
2020-01-12 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-12 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-12 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-12 18:17 ` Andrea Greselin
2020-01-12 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 9:27 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 16:43 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 16:56 ` Andrea Greselin [this message]
2020-01-13 17:03 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-13 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-14 9:52 ` Robert Pluim
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