Re: emacs chooses wrong bold font, again

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> Glenn Morris wrote:
> > Anyway, bold now looks ok.

> The current CVS is back to using overstriking for bold again.

> C-u x = on a bold character reports:

> 22:  -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO8859-1
> CVS: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1

> I am using in ~/.Xdefaults:
> Emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1

I was going to explain the change about this issue.

I had been trying to support such a case (i.e. the DPI
specified for the default font is different from the
preferred bold version) by loosing the rule in font listing
routine, but I realized that it's causes another weird
problem that is more difficult to workaround.  So, I changed
that rule more strict.  As the result:

> list: -misc-fixed-*-r-normal--*-100-100-c-70-iso8859-1

lists just these X fonts:

>   -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-*-100-100-c-70-iso8859-1
>   -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-*-100-100-c-70-iso8859-1
>   -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-100-100-c-70-iso8859-1

and, thus we get this result:

> sort-by: -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--14-*-100-100-c-70-iso8859-1
>   x:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-100-100-c-70-iso8859-1

because the size is more important than weight (according to
face-font-selection-order).

> If I change the above to:
> Emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-130-75-75-*-*-iso8859-1
> then CVS chooses the right bold font. 

Yes, that's the workaround I was going to suggest.  If you
want these fonts:

default: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1
   bold: -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1

I think there's no problem in specifying Emacs.font as
above, and that is more reasonable.  Anyway...

> It's no problem for me to do
> that, I'm just pointing out that the previous form has stopped working
> in case it should be fixed.

thank you for keeping watch on this problem.

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Kenichi Handa
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