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28.0.50; troubles with some chars in term

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Message #174 received at 44664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, bugs <at> gnu.support, 44664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44664: 28.0.50; troubles with some chars in term
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 10:58:16 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> You mean they are so wide that compressing them will make them illegible?
>
> I don't know how to "compress" glyphs, actually.  I hoped that we can
> get away with just "padding", which boils down to enlarging their
> width metrics.  But if we need to make the width significantly smaller
> than the font glyph font says, I don't know what would be the effect
> of that, and I have no idea how to "shrink" a glyph on display.

Oh, I thought you said that we shrink some glyphs vertically already?

I imagined shrinking the width of a glyph would mean just throwing away
some vertical lines, or specify a transformation matrix, or something.
(I have not looked at the code, as you can tell.)

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