From 7ec66a59e3ea0a01e43ac0c7775749a2e7359ed3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Pluim Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:49:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Document spacing issues with Xft for some fonts * etc/PROBLEMS: Document issues with Xft and some recent fonts (Bug#39082). --- etc/PROBLEMS | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 5067b53817b..9e4a631c729 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -728,6 +728,18 @@ and ps-mule to print Unicode characters. You may have bad fonts. +** Under X, some characters are unexpectedly wide. + +e.g. recent versions of Inconsolata show this issue for almost all of +its characters. Due to what is probably an Xft bug, the determination +of the width of some characters is incorrect. One workaround is to +build emacs with Cairo enabled ("configure --with-cairo" and have the +appropriate Cairo development packages installed) as this +configuration does not suffer from this problem. See + and + +for more discussion. + ** Under X, an unexpected monospace font is used as the default font. When compiled with XFT, Emacs tries to use a default font named -- 2.39.2