xft and underscores getting worse!?
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Hi,
Since some months it seems like the problems with xft fonts and
underscores are getting worse. As I get it there are some display
problems with xft, that we have debated as whether they are major or
minor.
I have up till now considered them as minor compared to the other
benefits of xft fonts. What I can see since a few months is that
underscores are normally not visible at all. Redraw of the screen will
not help. Could it be something with new version of X or new font
definitions or have we changed something that could cause this?
Yours
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Mats Lidell writes:
Since some months it seems like the problems with xft fonts and
underscores are getting worse.
I haven't noticed it changing, but it's a very delicate bug. I do
know that it matters on my platforms what fonts and sizes and use.
underscores are normally not visible at all. Redraw of the screen
will
not help.
That's very bad. C-l always works for me, at least if the line
position changes. What do you mean by "redraw doesn't help" exactly?
Steve
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>>>> Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
I haven't noticed it changing, but it's a very delicate bug.
I do
know that it matters on my platforms what fonts and sizes and use.
I guess I will have to tweak the fonts and sizes then!
That's very bad. C-l always works for me, at least if the line
position changes. What do you mean by "redraw doesn't help"
exactly?
I mean that I have the feeling that redraw always worked before when
I got some font-garbage but not with these vanishing underscores.
Take this code from the file-attributes task:
RETURN_UNGCPRO (listn (12,
mode,
make_integer (s.st_nlink),
uidInfo,
gidInfo,
make_time (s.st_atime),
make_time (s.st_mtime),
make_time (s.st_ctime),
size,
modestring,
gid,
make_integer (s.st_ino),
make_integer (s.st_dev)));
As I write this message I see not a single underscore in the code
example above. Hitting ^L does not help. If I visit the underscores
with the cursor they are displayed, one by one. Some can stick for a
while but then they are not visible again.
Makes coding a bit harder than neccessary I think ;-)
Yours
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