Hi,

In my setup, rxvt-unicode is spacing characters more widely than other
apps (using xft fonts; haven't tried it with X11 core fonts.)

As seen here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2867564879/

rxvt-unicode is on the left half of the screen, in the right half are
xfce4-terminal on top and emacs 23 on the bottom. All are using the
Consolas font at 20 points. rxvt-unicode has 49 characters at that
width; xfce4-terminal has 55; emacs has 53 (less than xfce4-terminal
due to the gutter on each side.)

Here's a similar screenshot with DejaVu Sans Mono at 16 points:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2867596691/

rxvt-unicode has 55 characters; xfce4-terminal has 64; emacs has 62.

This is rxvt-unicode 9.05, built from source. I get the same results
with Ubuntu Hardy's rxvt-unicode 8.4 package. I get the same spacing
whether I explicitly set antialias and autohint to true in urxvt's
Xresources or to false.

I'm using Ubuntu Hardy's xft 2.1.12 and freetype 2.3.5 packages.

Does this owe to some bug in the font definitions that the other apps
are compensating for? Is there a way to get the narrower spacing of
the others?

Thanks.

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