From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: NTEmacs courier bold width Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:47:54 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047311315 27834 80.91.224.249 (10 Mar 2003 15:48:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:48:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 10 16:48:34 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18sPVy-0007Eo-00 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:48:34 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18sPsI-0003uU-00 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:11:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18sPVl-0001aS-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:48:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18sPVQ-0001aE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:48:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18sPVO-0001ZU-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:47:59 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18sPVO-0001ZL-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:47:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18sPUj-00078x-00 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:47:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18sPUi-00078Z-00 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:47:16 +0100 Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3/w88h8XhbPz2AEHyn2W8DTVyeE= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12239 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12239 David Abrahams writes: > I've set my default font to Lucida Console, which seems to work fine > with the latest ntemacs font stuff (thank you, emacs developers!!). > > Today I was viewing a TeX file containing the following: > > A \textbf{Metafunction Class} is: > > In my buffer, however, it looks like this, in Courier: > > A \textbf{Metafunction Cla} is: > > With the string "Metafunction Cla" in bold. All the characters are > there, as I can see from the wacky overstrike display when I cursor > over them. When I use Lucida Console bold, it seems that Emacs just > makes the character positions wider, but in this case it looks like > Emacs is stubbornly maintaining a fixed width for all styles of > Courier. IIRC Courier was the one font whose styles worked correctly > in earlier versions. Am I mistaken? One more data point: emacs (or LaTeX mode) doesn't seem to be able to make up its mind which font it wants to display any given line in. Any edits on a line can change it between Courier and Lucida Console, seemingly at random. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com