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[AUCTeX-devel] Re: Font size of font-latex-title-*-face in XEmacs
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Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
[AUCTeX-devel] Re: Font size of font-latex-title-*-face in XEmacs |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:01:28 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Wed, Apr 20 2005, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> I'm sick of getting spammed with "you're not a member". Feel free to
> forward.
[ Not forwarded, but I won't trim the quotes in this message. ]
>>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Reiner> My system is SuSE 9.2:
>
> I don't know that the problem I'm referring to exists on your system
> (or any system); I'm simply saying that XEmacs's font handling is
> known to be currently out of step with the way the world actually
> works. We need to do a general overhaul; I advise you that if you
> observe problems in selecting fonts, there is nobody you can rely on
> to accurately explain what XEmacs currently does.
> I believe that if you are careful about the arithmetic and _never_
> specify sizes in points, only in pixels, you'll probably win. But I'm
> not even sure of that, and anyway custom like points better then
> pixels. So ... :-(
Changing "pt" to "px" in `font-latex.el' didn't produce better results
for me.
> Reiner> I don't see anything wrong here. Could you be more
> Reiner> specific, please?
>
> The problem occurs when you have a 16-pixel 16-point font in 75dpi, and
> want an 16-pixel 12-point font in 100dpi. What you will see in
> distros like Debian, at least in the past, is the equivalent of
>
> $ ls -l 100dpi/xyz.pcf.gz
> ... xyz.pcf.gz -> ../75dpi/xyz.pcf.gz
>
> Internally that font will tell you that it is a 16pt font, although on
> a 100dpi screen it will appear as a 12pt font, and the font list will
> show it as -misc-xyz-bla-bla-bla-bla--16-120-100-100-bla-bla-bla.
>
> Currently I have no symlinks in either 75dpi or 100dpi, so I guess
> Debian has stopped doing that.
I don't have such symlinks here.
Bye, Reiner.
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