Nicholas Riley
njril****@uiuc*****
Tue Oct 3 23:21:30 JST 2006
Hi again, My favorite monospaced font is SGI's 'screen' font. I wrapped it in TrueType with FontForge so I can use it on Mac OS X, and for the most part it works well - in Terminal, Mail, Safari, and most other Cocoa apps. There are spacing issues in Carbon-using apps such as BBEdit and Camino, however. Emacs does not exhibit the spacing issues, but it does have one problem that I can't seem to resolve - the bold variant of the font is drawn invisibly. I don't see this particular problem in any other application so I am hopeful it can be resolved. Older versions of GNU Emacs for OS X did not have this rendering problem. The line spacing changed in Tiger, however, as shown here: <http://njr.sabi.net/2005/05/02/1001screenshot-updated-for-tiger/> With your Emacs the display returns to that of Panther with the exception that the "setup.py" test is invisible. There is a bold version of this font, but when I enable it, all kinds of strange things happen, such as Terminal displaying the bold font with doubled width, so it is disabled. It's possible I have incorrectly converted the font, but I am not sure what to change. Any ideas on how to solve this problem? Alternately, is there a way to tell Emacs not to use the bold font ever? The most common place I find it missing is in the status line; it is helpful to be able to see the filename. :-) Thanks, -- Nicholas Riley <njril****@uiuc*****> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
