On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:53:31 +0100, Raimund Steger wrote: > The issue that has been brought up -- not for the first time -- is > that some text editors use bold face for syntax highlighting, and if > said editors happen to use a font that has no native bold variant > (Droid Sans Mono, Inconsolata, Lucida Console) the characters will > not align between the lines as FreeType adds emboldening strength to > the horizontal advance width which many toolkits use without > modification (not terminal emulators though! as I've found, but... > the rest).
But surely, if the font _does_ have a bold style, then that, too, will have different metrics, and the text won’t line up. So why are these text editors expecting the text to line up for fonts _without_ a designed bold style? If they want to do emboldening without changing the metrics, they should be doing something like overstriking the glyphs with slight offsets or equivalent--in other words, apply their own effects to the text. _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
