Mintty font problem

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 12.04.2016 um 22:27 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
> Am 11.04.2016 um 22:40 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
>> Am 11.04.2016 um 14:43 schrieb KARL BOTTS:
>>>
>>> Perhaps related to font issues in mintty: In .minttyrc is a new 
>>> property
>>> FontWeight=700,
>> which means you had configured the bold version of the font.
>>> after I installed Cygwin 2.4.1-1 and mintty 2.3.5. (I noticed,
>>> only because I have home dir files in revision control.)  I too use 
>>> Lucida Console.
>>>   With the 700, the font looked visibly "skinny" to me.
>> actually, rather the normal, non-bold font. The new font weight 
>> adjustment apparently enforces that although you selected bold 
>> (unless an even bolder weight would exist in the font family).
>> Maybe the font selection should be tweaked to allow selecting a bold 
>> font even at the cost of not having a bolder variant available.
> Actually, it does allow that, as can be seen with some other fonts. 
> The issue with Lucida Console is that it does not have a bold weight, 
> so there is only the Normal (400) weight which is then selected by the 
> new font weight tweaking algorithm.
>
>>> I set it to 800, looks fine now.  No problem, just tinkering required.
> This is obviously inconsistent with the behaviour of mapping 700 to 
> Normal.
This has been tweaked in the repository.
Thomas

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