Re: overlapping characters

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@seviorpc.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 23:01:33 EDT

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    On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 09:55, Kenneth J. Davis wrote:
    > using a font such as Luxi Serif or to a lesser extent Luxi Sans
    > (Luxi Serif is default font I get on my Slackware setup)
    > and nearly current cvs HEAD, I get similar behaviour
    > that I get on Windows, in that the characters overlap, though
    > here they seem to overlay instead of overwriting prior characters.
    >
    > I'd appreciate it if someone with Linux, current cvs, and
    > that has one of the Luxi Serif/Sans fonts would load
    > abi/src/docs/build/BUILD.zabw and tell me what they see.
    > Alternatively, start a new document, select Luxi Serif and
    > type a bunch of n and m letters. Or use o and Utopia font.
    >

    Looks just beautiful on my RH 9 current CVS build. Absolutely no problem
    at all.

    Martin
    > I'm curious if its how the font is supposed to work (seems odd),
    > my setup is screwed up (possible, but is pretty much an unchanged
    > full Slack install), or what. Note: courier and luxi mono fonts
    > work wonderfully (no overlapping or cursor positioning being off)
    > and zoom makes no difference; so maybe it is just the fonts?
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Jeremy
    >
    >
    >



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