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23.0.96; font rendering issue on Mac OS X

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Message #20 received at 3834 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 3834 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        Greg Jednaszewski <gjednaszewski <at> racemi.com>
Subject: Re: 23.0.96; font rendering issue on Mac OS X
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:12:56 -0400

I checked in a fix to the branch.  If it resolves the issue I'll copy  
it to the trunk as well.



On Jul 14, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Chong Yidong wrote:

> Hi Adrian,
>
> Could you take a look at this bug report as soon as you can?  Thanks.
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=3834
>
>> I use the 'Terminus' font in emacs, and it seems that starting with
>> 23.0.95 (and 23.0.96 as well), emacs always wants to render the  
>> font in
>> bold.  It looked perfect in 23.0.94, so something has changed since
>> then.
>>
>> Here is a screenshot of the correct font rendering in 23.0.94.  The
>> buffer name on the modeline is properly bold, everything else is  
>> medium:
>> http://attenuated.org/emacs/emacs-23.0.94.png
>>
>> Here is a screenshot of the incorrect font rendering in 23.0.96:
>> http://attenuated.org/emacs/emacs-23.0.96.png
>>
>> Here is a copy of the font for reference:
>> http://antihe.ro/misc/TerminusMedium.dfont
>>
>> As can be seen from the screenshot, I am setting the font with:
>> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "terminus" :height 140)

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