Re: Font size innacuracies (Windows)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juan José García-Ripoll
>  <juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 08:43:22 +0100
> 
> I suspect that the variations are due to VSCode's display
> engine. I just realized that the same discrepancies (more
> pleasant rendering of Consolas) can be seen by embedding the *.cc files
> in HTML (as <pre></pre>) and displaying them on Microsoft Edge, btw.

Maybe they use kerning, i.e. they run all the text they display
through a text-shaping engine (DirectWrite etc.).  Emacs doesn't; we
only use a shaping engine for scripts that require complex text
shaping, and then only for some sequences of characters.