Re: issues migrating to cocoa emacs (23.2) from carbon emacs (22)

[John Owens]

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> writes:

> 
> >>>>> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:29:49 +0000 (UTC), John Owens <john_owens <at>
yahoo.com> said:
> 
> > To me the right pane (Carbon Emacs) looks a lot better than the left
> > pane (emacs 23). This is the "Inconsolata" font. It's boldface that
> > looks the worst to me. Perhaps this is a perception issue, but my
> > perception is 23 took a step backwards.
> 
> That might be due to the difference in how to simulate bold-face for
> the fonts that don't have the "real" bold (e.g, Monaco).  The Carbon
> port in Emacs 22 uses synthetic bold in ATSUI or Quickdraw Text, and
> the NS port uses overstriking.

That would be a sensible answer! IMHO, then, synthetic-bold >> overstriking. :)

JDO