Re: Changing Font Size for Specific Character Range

[Florian Beck]

No idea, anyone?

I would think it natural to specify a font size via set-fontset-font. 

Am I doing something unsound? Is my setup broken?

If not, where do feature suggestions go?

Florian Beck <abstraktion@t-online.de> writes:

> While I am am usually happy with a fairly small font, there are certain
> characters I would like to see larger (arrows, certain mathematical
> symbols, kanji).
>
> A while ago (on the unicode-2 branch, but well before the merge), I was
> able to accomplish that with
>
> (set-fontset-font "fontset-default"
>   'han
>   "-*-Code2000-medium-r-normal--20-*-*-*-*-*-unicode-bmp")
>
> But not anymore. The size gets ignored. (I also tried font-config like
> font names as well as using "create-fontset-from-fontset-spec", but
> these approaches exhibit the same problem).
>
> This might have been an intentional change, as it makes sense to scale
> fonts in a fontset wrt the default font.
>
> Anyway, hints on how to change the size of specific characters would be
> much appreciated. (Without having to resort to font lock, which is above
> my head.)
>
> I'm using the current CVS on Ubuntu, libfontconfig 1.3.
> -- 
> Florian Beck

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Florian Beck