On 9/18/07, Phil Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > Strangely, the latin fixed-font bdf (the "intlfont" refered in emacs windows faq) works well.
> 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. > I do suffer from this, also. > 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 > I know that ttf version. 16 pixel is clear. Unfortunately, the -raster-* fonts do not work for me (any thing I should take care?). However, I do hope bdf fonts support is good. There are a few pretty bdf font out there (including an opensource chinese font). Thanks very much for the answer. -- Yu-ning Feng
