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Re: issues migrating to cocoa emacs (23.2) from carbon emacs (22)
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John Owens |
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Re: issues migrating to cocoa emacs (23.2) from carbon emacs (22) |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:22:31 +0000 (UTC) |
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YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> writes:
>
> >>>>> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:29:49 +0000 (UTC), John Owens <john_owens <at>
yahoo.com> said:
>
> > To me the right pane (Carbon Emacs) looks a lot better than the left
> > pane (emacs 23). This is the "Inconsolata" font. It's boldface that
> > looks the worst to me. Perhaps this is a perception issue, but my
> > perception is 23 took a step backwards.
>
> That might be due to the difference in how to simulate bold-face for
> the fonts that don't have the "real" bold (e.g, Monaco). The Carbon
> port in Emacs 22 uses synthetic bold in ATSUI or Quickdraw Text, and
> the NS port uses overstriking.
That would be a sensible answer! IMHO, then, synthetic-bold >> overstriking. :)
JDO