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Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 21:11:57 +0100 |
>>>>> On Tue, 04 Feb 2020 19:32:08 +0100, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> said:
Tassilo> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
Tassilo> Hi Robert,
Tassilo> I've now tried at home with my own computer (also running Arch)
and got
Tassilo> the same issue so it is at least not machine specific.
I spun up an Arch VM, and the system jetbrains mono package works fine
there.
Tassilo> I did that, and now it works just fine. Is there something
different
Tassilo> (except for the location) when installing a font by just copying
the ttf
Tassilo> files to /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ and installing them with the Fonts
tool?
Tassilo> I mean, now it works with the very same ttf files I've previously
copied
Tassilo> to /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ (replacing the files installed by the Arch
Tassilo> package).
Not that I know of, as far as I know it just does the moral equivalent of
'fc-cache' somewhere.
Tassilo> Hm, another minor thing: when I compare the rendering of the above
Tassilo> paragraph in gedit and emacs, there are slight differences for some
Tassilo> glyphs. For example, the F in TTF is slightly higher than the Ts,
and
Tassilo> the y is slightly lower than, e.g., an a or o. In gedit, their
height
Tassilo> is equal.
That sounds like there are hinting differences. Cairo doesnʼt always
obey the Gnome Tweaks hinting settings. The following might help:
<https://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2009/04/17/ubuntu-font-hinting-you-a-cautionary-tale/>
Robert
- Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Tassilo Horn, 2020/02/04
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Robert Pluim, 2020/02/04
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Robert Pluim, 2020/02/04
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Tassilo Horn, 2020/02/04
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Robert Pluim, 2020/02/04
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Tassilo Horn, 2020/02/04
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Robert Pluim, 2020/02/04
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Tassilo Horn, 2020/02/04
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb,
Robert Pluim <=
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Tassilo Horn, 2020/02/05
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/02/04
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Tassilo Horn, 2020/02/04
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/02/04
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Tassilo Horn, 2020/02/05
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/02/05
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Tassilo Horn, 2020/02/06
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/02/06
- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Tassilo Horn, 2020/02/07
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- Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/02/07