Yu-ning Feng wrote on Saturday, September 15, 2007 9:05 AM:: > On 9/13/07, Yu-ning Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> then screen becomes blank. Seems the font is not correctly handled. >> > > If I put the cursor on the places where characters should be, correct > glyph will appear. However, if I switch to another (Windows) window, > and switch back, glyphs disappear. > > Anyone have met the same problem? Or, guess the reason of that if not. > Thanks for any help.
This is not new. Exactly the same happens in: GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE This is purely a guess, but it looks like a native Windows function is being called to display a string of characters, and that function doesn't understand BDF fonts. Whereas the character under the cursor is handled by an internal function which does understand BDF. This may also explain why using ClearType and/or italics can cause fragments of characters to be left behind if they are being drawn using a Windows function, then erased by an internal function with a slightly different idea of the rendered glyph's size/position. Have you tried a TTF version of the BDF font? If the one on the page you referenced doesn't look good (you do need to ensure that you only use sizes that don't require scaling), there's a link to a page with only the bitmapped versions. This works for me although each size is a separate font which is a bit messy. Phil
