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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-27 7ec66a5: Document spacing issues with Xft for some fonts
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:17:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2muaqruk6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsgkirvid.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:57:52 -0500")

>>>>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:57:52 -0500, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> said:

    >> +** Under X, some characters are unexpectedly wide.
    >> +
    >> +e.g. recent versions of Inconsolata show this issue for almost all of
    >> +its characters.  Due to what is probably an Xft bug, the determination
    >> +of the width of some characters is incorrect.  One workaround is to
    >> +build emacs with Cairo enabled ("configure --with-cairo" and have the
    >> +appropriate Cairo development packages installed) as this
    >> +configuration does not suffer from this problem.  See
    >> +<https://github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata/issues/42> and
    >> +<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2020-01/msg00456.html>
    >> +for more discussion.

    Stefan> Does the use of Harfbuzz affect the result?

I see this in an XFT build both with and without Harfbuzz.

Robert



  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-14 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2020-01-14 10:45   ` emacs-27 7ec66a5: Document spacing issues with Xft for some fonts Robert Pluim
2020-01-14 16:00     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-14 16:27       ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-14 13:57   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-14 14:17     ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-01-14 15:31       ` Eli Zaretskii

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