GNU bug report logs - #39082
Inconsolata v3.000 has too wide spacing

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andrea Greselin <greselin.andrea <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 10:05:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Andrea Greselin <greselin.andrea <at> gmail.com>, 39082 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39082: Inconsolata v3.000 has too wide spacing
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:27:32 +0100

>>>>> On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 20:44:08 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> said:

    Eli> The 4th value is unimportant: it's the font's glyph index for that
    Eli> character's glyph.  The 5th element is the problem: it's what we use
    Eli> for the glyph.  29 is way too large, about 2.5 times too large.

    Eli> So the question now becomes how come we get such a large value.  Looks
    Eli> like we somehow use the space-width value instead of the character
    Eli> glyph's width, not sure why.  I guess stepping through the code I've
    Eli> shown from xdisp.c is still necessary to understand this.

I can reproduce this, but I donʼt know how much effort we should spend
getting to the bottom of it: a Cairo-enabled build (ie !XFT) does not
have this problem.

Robert
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