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Inconsolata v3.000 has too wide spacing
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Message #43 received at 39082-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
>>>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 19:26:41 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> said:
>> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: greselin.andrea <at> gmail.com, 39082 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:03:37 +0100
>>
>> ** Under X, some characters are unexpectedly wide.
>>
>> e.g. recent versions of Inconsolata show this issue for almost all of
>> its characters. Due to either a limitation in the Xft interface used
>> by Emacs, or an Xft bug, the determination of the width of some
>> characters is incorrect. Emacs built with Cairo enabled ("configure
>> --with-cairo") and the appropriate cairo development packages
>> installed does not have this issue. See
>> <https://github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata/issues/42> and
>> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2020-01/msg00456.html>
>> for more discussion.
Eli> OK, but please inject something like "a workaround is to ..." into
Eli> this text. Like "A workaround is to build Emacs with Cairo enabled,
Eli> as this configuration doesn't have such problems."
OK. Pushed to emacs-27, closing the bug.
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