Package: emacs23 Version: 23.1+1-5 Severity: minor Emacs running under X defaults to using DejaVu Sans Mono Book 12. This is the default Monospace font in Debian so it appears to be the correct selection for consistency, although most of GNOME uses a 10 point font rather than 12 for text. Using an LCD monitor with Subpixel Smoothing and Full Hinting configured via gnome-appearance-properties the GNOME applications render DejaVu Sans Mono Book nicely. In Emacs however this and other fonts appear thicker and darker than in GNOME applications. As a test case I write "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." in Emacs and in Gedit configured to use DejaVu Sans Mono Book 12. The two applications render the text differently. I suspect that Emacs is not using Subpixel Smoothing or Full Hinting for the rendering.
-- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages emacs23 depends on: ii emacs23-bin-common 23.1+1-5 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in ii libasound2 1.0.21a-1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libatk1.0-0 1.28.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-1.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgif4 4.1.6-8 library for GIF images (library) ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.3-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgpm2 1.20.4-3.2 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.5-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-15 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libm17n-0 1.5.4-1+b1 a multilingual text processing lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libotf0 0.9.10-1 A Library for handling OpenType Fo ii libpango1.0-0 1.26.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.41-1 PNG library - runtime ii librsvg2-2 2.26.0-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libtiff4 3.9.2-1 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libx11-6 2:1.3.2-1 X11 client-side library ii libxft2 2.1.14-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxpm4 1:3.5.8-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.5-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime emacs23 recommends no packages. Versions of packages emacs23 suggests: ii emacs23-common-non-dfsg 23.1+1-1 GNU Emacs shared, architecture ind -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org