GNU bug report logs - #32210
Support medium weighted fonts

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 14:07:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 28351, 51155

Found in versions 26.0.50, 29.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com, 32210 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32210: Support medium weighted fonts
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:55:09 +0100

>>>>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:28:49 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> said:
    Lars> and tried using the gtk selector (via M-x menu-set-font).  I only have
    Lars> one font installed that has both normal and medium variations "Nimbus
    Lars> no9", so I tried that.  And I got:

    Lars> Weight: 400, symbol normal
    Lars> Weight: 700, symbol bold

    Lars> And, yes, the thing that's called Nimbus No9 Medium does look like a
    Lars> bold in both the gtk selector and in Emacs.  So I don't think I have a
    Lars> proper font to experiment with...  does anybody know of a font in Debian
    Lars> Stable that has both varieties?  SauceCodePro was the example in the
    Lars> bug report, but that does not seem to be available here.

I tried here with 'Noto Sans CJK HK', which seems to have every
variant under the sun, and got:

Weight: 400, symbol normal
Weight: 500, symbol semi-bold

I donʼt know if Debian Stable has that font.

Robert
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