Re: Strange "boldification" of letters

[Joel J. Adamson]

Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> Hallöchen!
>
> Reiner Steib writes:
>
>> On Sat, May 10 2008, Torsten Bronger wrote:
>>
>>> Reiner Steib writes:
>>>> ,----[ INSTALL.CVS ]
>>>> | Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs
>>>> | should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help
>>>> | or gnu.emacs.bug.  Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will
>>>> | send it to the proper place.
>>>> `----
>>>
>>> I know this passage very well.  
>>
>> Is there a good reason not to honor the request of the developers?
>
> If I know for sure that it is a bug in Emacs, I honor it.  In this
> case, I found it totally plausible that it's Gnome which is to blame,
> or some other layer between Emacs and my flat panel display.

In my last reply I forgot to mention that I had the same problem using
various window managers, none of which included Gnome (Metacity).  It
may be a fonts.conf issue with Dejavu/Bitstream Vera fonts.  Try turning
off font-smoothing, or a different font.

I also had problems using Dejavu in xterm.  In other words I don't think
this is an Emacs issue.

Joel

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