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Re: How can I determine what the default font it?
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Kai Grossjohann |
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Re: How can I determine what the default font it? |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:23:49 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) |
floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L. Davidson) writes:
> jasonr (Jason Rumney) @ f2s.com wrote:
>>floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L. Davidson) writes:
>>
>>Then set your dpi correctly, so X can compensate. Since 21.1, Emacs
>>default fonts are specified in point sizes rather than pixel sizes.
>
> Can you be less cryptic?
Different monitors/displays show a pixel in different sizes. Pixel
size is usually measured in pixels per inch, or dots per inch, aka
DPI.
The X server has a configuration option (in /etc/X11/XF86Config, I
believe) where you can tell it about the dpi of your monitor/display.
Emacs used to specify font sizes in pixel, so regardless of what dpi
you specified in X11, the standard font was N pixels tall.
But now, Emacs specifies font sizes in point (1/72th of an inch), so
the number of pixels of the default font size depends on the dpi
setting. Let's say you specify a 12pt font, then that's 1/6 inches.
If you have 6 dpi, then Emacs will choose 1 pixel to display it. If
you have 60 dpi, then Emacs will choose 10 pixels to display it.
This method works for many applications.
Kai
Re: How can I determine what the default font it?, Robert Marshall, 2004/02/28
Re: How can I determine what the default font it?, V. L. Simpson, 2004/02/28