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24.0.50; bold font overlapped on windows platform.

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Message #15 received at 9551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Kevin Yu <yujie052 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 9551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9551: 24.0.50; bold font overlapped on windows platform.
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 17:24:34 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Kevin Yu <yujie052 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Some fonts have different font width between normal and bold face.
>> It seems like emacs assumes that they do have the same width on
>> windows platform. Is it a bug? or feature?
>
> (I'm going through old Emacs bug reports that unfortunately got no
> response at the time.)
>
> If a bug is monospaced, then the bold version is supposed to be of the
> same width as the unbolded version.  However, Emacs has support for
> variable-width fonts, so this should be no problem.
>
> Are you still seeing these overlapping fonts in modern Emacs versions?

More information was requested a month ago, but none was given, so I'm
closing this bug report.  Please reopen if this is still an issue.

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