On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:46:30 +0100, S�bastien Kirche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 11 f�v 2005, S�bastien Kirche a dit : > > > - with the OSX build (also with fixed width font), bold characters are > > wider > > Actually, bold characters are wider with X11 too, but in OSX the one pixel > space is preserved while in X11 it is not.
... so the _character spacing_ in X11 is the same for bold and non-bold variants, but in OSX it is wider for bold. :-) My impression is that many fixed-width X11 bold fonts try to maintain the same character spacing as their non-bold variants, at the expense of somethimes eliminating inter-character whitespace (for characters that occupy the extreme left and right edges of the space available). What's funny is that I actually _ can't tell_ this inter-character whitespace is missing!! I guess my eyes are just so used to english character forms that such details just don't register... :-O -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
