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Re: issues migrating to cocoa emacs (23.2) from carbon emacs (22)


From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
Subject: Re: issues migrating to cocoa emacs (23.2) from carbon emacs (22)
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:38:38 +0900
User-agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (Shijō) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.3 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI)

>>>>> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:29:49 +0000 (UTC), John Owens <address@hidden> 
>>>>> said:

> To me the right pane (Carbon Emacs) looks a lot better than the left
> pane (emacs 23). This is the "Inconsolata" font. It's boldface that
> looks the worst to me. Perhaps this is a perception issue, but my
> perception is 23 took a step backwards.

That might be due to the difference in how to simulate bold-face for
the fonts that don't have the "real" bold (e.g, Monaco).  The Carbon
port in Emacs 22 uses synthetic bold in ATSUI or Quickdraw Text, and
the NS port uses overstriking.

                                     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
                                address@hidden



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