Re: latex mode, nexted subscripts are unreadable

[Jason Rumney]

Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
>     the nested suscripts are visible, but are still too tiny for comfort.
>     And they're not clearly visible - the gray letters end up with most of
>     the pixels light gray and a few of them darker.
>
> Unfortunately neither I nor Juri were able to reproduce this on our
> (non-Windows) systems.  
>
> Is there an Emacs developer who works on Windows who could look into this?
>   

It depends on the font used and the antialiasing settings of the system.
I imagine you could reproduce it on X in the emacs-unicode-2 branch with
the xft font backend enabled, some tinkering with /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
(or whatever the fontconfig configuration file is on your system) and
Courier New or a similar poorly designed truetype font.

I can only reproduce the problem with Courier New and "standard"
antialiasing. Switching to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, or changing to
"Cleartype" sub-pixel antialiasing (on and LCD screen) both make the
problem disappear.