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Re: NTEmacs courier bold width
From: |
David Abrahams |
Subject: |
Re: NTEmacs courier bold width |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:47:54 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) |
David Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
> I've set my default font to Lucida Console, which seems to work fine
> with the latest ntemacs font stuff (thank you, emacs developers!!).
>
> Today I was viewing a TeX file containing the following:
>
> A \textbf{Metafunction Class} is:
>
> In my buffer, however, it looks like this, in Courier:
>
> A \textbf{Metafunction Cla} is:
>
> With the string "Metafunction Cla" in bold. All the characters are
> there, as I can see from the wacky overstrike display when I cursor
> over them. When I use Lucida Console bold, it seems that Emacs just
> makes the character positions wider, but in this case it looks like
> Emacs is stubbornly maintaining a fixed width for all styles of
> Courier. IIRC Courier was the one font whose styles worked correctly
> in earlier versions. Am I mistaken?
One more data point: emacs (or LaTeX mode) doesn't seem to be able to
make up its mind which font it wants to display any given line in.
Any edits on a line can change it between Courier and Lucida Console,
seemingly at random.
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com