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bug#46436: 27.1.91; Font weight issue on MacOS Big Sur
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Robert Pluim |
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bug#46436: 27.1.91; Font weight issue on MacOS Big Sur |
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Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:22:18 +0200 |
>>>>> On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 20:22:04 +0100, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> said:
Alan> Arnaud Antkowiak <arnaud.antkowiak@upmc.fr> writes:
>> All the informations on font weight appear to be stripped out in Mac OS
Big Sur ; as a result, a single weight takes precedence over the others.
>> As an example, if I install say Roboto Mono Light, I can see the font
via M-x describe-font as :
>>
>> -*-Roboto Mono-bold-italic-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-bold-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-normal-italic-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>>
>> The ‘light’ weight information does not appear. As a consequence, if I
now install Roboto Mono Regular, this is what I get:
>>
>> -*-Roboto Mono-bold-italic-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-bold-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-normal-italic-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>>
>> The two fonts having the same handler, one takes precedence over the
other (and all the text now appears as a long fat headline).
>> Testing the same process under macOS Catalina (the previous OS) on
another computer, this is what I get after installing Roboto Mono Light :
>>
>> -*-Roboto Mono-bold-italic-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-bold-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-light-italic-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-light-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-light-normal-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-auto1
>>
>> And after installing Roboto Mono Regular :
>>
>> -*-Roboto Mono-bold-italic-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-bold-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-light-italic-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-light-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-light-normal-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-auto1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-normal-italic-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>> -*-Roboto Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>>
>> The font weight information is here preserved and I can select different
variants of the font. So it seems like the problem really pertains to MacOS Big
Sur.
>> Many thanks in advance for your help,
Alan> Hi, sorry nobody's got back to you before now.
Alan> I don't have Big Sur installed so I can't test this.
Alan> Are you able to try Emacs 28 (the master branch) and see if the
problem
Alan> exists there too?
Iʼm not sure. I installed those two fonts, and indeed when I select
'weight:light' in M-x customize-face it has no effect. But other than
that I donʼt see 'a long fat headline'.
Robert
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