Re: 23.0.60; Poor font rendering example

[Stephen Berman]

On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:37:01 +0900 Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> wrote:

> In article <address@hidden>, Stephen Berman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:38:44 +0900 Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > In article <address@hidden>, Stephen Berman <address@hidden> writes:
>> >
>>>> 1. Using the xft font backend, I start Emacs like this:
>>>> emacs -Q -fn "-b&h-Luxi 
>>>> Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-0-iso8859-1" test.txt
>> >
>> > Please tell me from where I can get that font.
>
>> I'll email what I believe to be the right file to you off list.
>
> With the fonts you sent me, I confirmed that bad rendering
> with the pixelsize 14.  But, the same rendering problem
> occurs in gedit's font selection window (see the attached
> image).  So, I think it's a problem of font itself or of
> freetype library.

Ah, yes I see that here too.  Sorry it didn't occur to me to check
outside of Emacs before wasting your time and list bandwidth.  But
thanks for confirming the problem, and that it's not an Emacs problem.
I'll check the Xorg bug tracker.

Steve Berman