GNU bug report logs - #3834
23.0.96; font rendering issue on Mac OS X

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Message #27 received at 3834 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Greg Jednaszewski <gjednaszewski <at> racemi.com>
To: Adrian Robert <Adrian.B.Robert <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>, 3834 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.96; font rendering issue on Mac OS X
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:59:08 -0400

Thanks for taking a look and making a fix.  I'd be happy to test it,  
but I haven't been building it myself.  I've been grabbing the  
pretests from here:
http://porkrind.org/emacs/

If you can provide a build or point me at some instructions on how to  
build it myself, I'll verify the fix.

Thanks,
Greg

On Jul 14, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Adrian Robert wrote:

> 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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