Mintty font problem

[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.

Thomas

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