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Re: emacs-27 7ec66a5: Document spacing issues with Xft for some fonts
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Robert Pluim |
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Re: emacs-27 7ec66a5: Document spacing issues with Xft for some fonts |
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Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:17:45 +0100 |
>>>>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:57:52 -0500, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> 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