Re: [Bug: 21.5-b22] Display of italic characters
>>>> "Franz" == Franz Haeuslschmid
<lukrez(a)gmx.at> writes:
> X fonts don't specify italic corrections, and these italic
> fonts are writing outside of their nominal bounding boxes. Not
> much we can do about that in the context of the current
> redisplay engine, I'm afraid.
Franz> I'm on MS Windows here. Is the explanation above valid,
Franz> too?
Probably, but I don't know much about how this works in the MS world.
It's possible that we could get the italic correction and do something
about it systematically. I'll see if I can convince Ben or Andy to
look at it.
Franz> On my system, XEmacs Beta recently uses a different default
Franz> font than previous versions or the stable XEmacs used to.
That was a deliberate change, but I don't know for sure what the
rationale is. I think it's a denser font, so you get more text on
screen for the same point size.
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