On second thought, this might be only with Emacs and not with Xft. Gvim/vim doesn't have any problems, anyway, but I don't know what that uses to render fonts.
I'm not really qualified to know exactly where the problem is, but I'd advise anyone coming across this to look at the original bug referenced in the first post. Once that is fixed, this bug report and be marked "fixed." -- Xft hinting causes "bolding" problem in emacs-snapshot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234187 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs