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bug#58538: anti-alias fix results in ugly scaled fonts
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#58538: anti-alias fix results in ugly scaled fonts |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Oct 2022 12:38:59 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Stephen Gildea <stepheng+emacs@gildea.com> writes:
> At HEAD (29.0.50), I get an ugly scaled font for my sans-serif text.
> I noticed it in MH-E, and you can reproduce it as follows:
>
> emacs -Q -fn fixed --eval "(buffer-face-set 'variable-pitch)"
>
> Although the default font is specified on the command line as "fixed"
> (from the misc-fixed X11 family of fonts), and the variable-pitch font
> selected is not in the misc-fixed family, having "fixed" as the
> default font affects the font selected for the "variable-pitch" face.
> Which font it selects changed recently.
You didn't include the output from `M-x report-emacs-bug' -- what OS are
you running Emacs on?
On the current Ubuntu, your recipe gives me:
Without "-fn fixed", I get:
Which looks like the same font for `variable-pitch' to me, only a lot
larger (since this is a HiDPI screen and the "fixed" font is tiny here).