From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20628: 25.0.50; Incorrect line height for some fonts Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 09:27:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <555E9C2E.8040008@live.com> <83wq004x2w.fsf@gnu.org> <83twv44vd3.fsf@gnu.org> <87egm87ny6.fsf@gmail.com> <83oalc4syu.fsf@gnu.org> <87617k7m5u.fsf@gmail.com> <83mw0w4seb.fsf@gnu.org> <87zj4w66ds.fsf@gmail.com> <83lhgg4qhf.fsf@gnu.org> <87iobk64e6.fsf@gmail.com> <83h9r44o63.fsf@gnu.org> <87pp5sy4vu.fsf@gmail.com> <83egm84mj3.fsf@gnu.org> <87617k6127.fsf@gmail.com> <83d21s4lpx.fsf@gnu.org> <87twv44lnc.fsf@gmail.com> <87egm84kp2.fsf@gmail.com> <83a8ww4grx.fsf@gnu.org> <87382oml31.fsf@gmail.com> <83h9r33gky.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432387768 29064 80.91.229.3 (23 May 2015 13:29:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 13:29:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: clement.pitclaudel@live.com, ohwoeowho@gmail.com, 20628@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 23 15:29:16 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yw9UJ-0005dc-Iz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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23 May 2015 09:27:53 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 27B4024E2; Sat, 23 May 2015 09:27:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83h9r33gky.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 23 May 2015 10:20:45 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:103102 Archived-At: >> So the question becomes: why does Emacs select this font and how could >> we change ti so it selects something else. > Emacs selects that font because it's available, and claims support for > the particular character Emacs needs to display. That doesn't explain why it selects that font instead of some other font (say Symbola). > And I don't agree with the "just sucks" part: there are use cases when > the user might prefer a specific font for valid reason, e.g. the > quality of the glyphs. Oh, I'm not saying that specifying the font you want sucks. I'm just saying that having to specify a good font sucks when what you want to do is to specify which font is bad instead (and you may not even know which font is good, and/or that font may not always be the same). Stefan