Re: Strange "boldification" of letters

[Stephen Berman]

On Sat, 10 May 2008 13:32:11 +0200 Torsten Bronger 
<bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> Hallöchen!
>
> I observe the following effect with my Emacs 23.0.60.4 on a Gnome
> desktop: http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/Torsten.Bronger/emacs.png
>
> As you can see, the letters "i" and "r" to the left of the cursor
> (and the preceding line) are much bolder than the others.  I
> achieved this by pressing "up arrow" and "down arrow" many many
> times, alternating point between the "n" and the "o" (so, the
> right-hand-side neighbours of the bold letters).  By doing this, the
> letters became gradually bolder.  The typeface is "monospace-14",
> the cursor is non-blinking.  As you can see, sub-pixel anti-aliasing
> is switched on with Gnome.
>
> Only some letters are affected.  i, r, x, s, k, w, as far as I can
> see.  But "m", for example, stays thin.
>
> What's going on here?
>
> Tschö,
> Torsten.

See the thread on emacs-devel beginning with
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/95458

Steve Berman