Re: [ jEdit-users ] Re: Wacky editing problem

[Slava P. <sp...@gj...>]

Jeff Ammons wrote:
> 
> Looks like I found the culprit... It was the nefarious Italics. The
> Style for comments was set to be italics. For whatever reason, this
> caused the problem. Turn off italics and everything works fine. Haven't
> tried under Windows, so I can't say if it happens there as well. I'll
> try to check that next week when I'm back at work.
> 

This has been reported before. I have no idea what the cause is; perhaps
Java 2d does fancy kerning stuff where width(str) != sum of width(chars).

Slava