GNU bug report logs - #35781
Make Cairo build obey hint-style font setting

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 17:40:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 35781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 35781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35781: 27.0.50; [PATCH] Improve font display on Cairo builds
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 20:23:57 +0200

Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:
>
>> Isn't font hinting something that the user sets in their global
>> display configuration? With different people preferring different
>> levels of hinting.

Ah-ha!  Just noticed some hint-related code in xftfont.c and xsettings.c
which seems to be responsible for applying this global configuration.
Now to investigate why the end result differs in the Cairo build…
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 83 days ago.

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