Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge

[Stephen Berman]

On Thu, 22 May 2008 22:36:43 +0200 Stephen Berman <address@hidden> wrote:

> Here is a screen shot of my current mode line and Gnus Summary buffer,
> in GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of
> 2008-05-22 on escher, after Handa-san's latest changes:
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> The (active) mode line face now displays Helvetica correctly.  Note,
> however, that in the inactive mode line face the characters are wider,
> although mode-line-inactive does not override the width attribute of
> variable-pitch (changing the width attribute to "narrow" still results
> in a font family of "monotype-Impact").  In addition, the broken
> underlining remains (the image shows the spacing with
> x-use-underline-position-properties set to nil), also in the Gnus
> Summary buffer.  In the latter, the underlining to the right of the
> vertical separator only appeared after moving the cursor over this
> region; it disappears when the buffer does not have focus, or when the
> mouse moves over it (it has a mouse-face overlay).  Note also that the
> non-ascii characters (the vertical line and the curves and arrows used
> for threading) look much worse than after the previous update: thin,
> misaligned, and leaving vertical gaps.

With current CVS (actually, I think since Friday), all the display
problems I reported with the mode line and the Gnus Summary buffer have
been fixed (and the non-ascii characters look good again).  Thanks!

Steve Berman