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Re: emacs-27 7ec66a5: Document spacing issues with Xft for some fonts
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: emacs-27 7ec66a5: Document spacing issues with Xft for some fonts |
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Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:31:46 +0200 |
> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:17:45 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
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> Stefan> Does the use of Harfbuzz affect the result?
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> I see this in an XFT build both with and without Harfbuzz.
Which is expected: we only call HarfBuzz for character composition,
not for "simple" text such as ASCII. Otherwise, we use the glyph
metrics as returned by the lower-level facilities, in this case the
Xft API that returns the "text extents".