Re: Increase text size of echo area / mode line?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 21.05.2011 um 14:01 schrieb Johnny:

> Any suggestions welcome!


Did you launch GNU Emacs with the -Q option? This means: without any  
customisation. Now enter: C-h H! After some a buffer HELLO will open.  
How is the size of the Chinese characters in this buffer? How is the  
size of the characters when you perform your usual completion test in  
mini-buffer?

If all looks pretty well you can try: M-x describe-fontset RET. You  
can also position the cursor on one of the Chinese characters in the  
HELLO buffer and type: C-u C-x =. In the just opened *Help* buffer you  
can see the XLFD (X11 Logical Font Descriptor) name of the font used  
by GNU Emacs. You can now try to create a new or modify an existing  
fontset to use the font you just determined:

        (defvar my-fontset-spec)
        (setq my-fontset-spec
              "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-normal,
                chinese-big5-1:*-kai-*-*-15-*,
                chinese-big5-2:*-kai-*-*-15-*"
        )
        
        (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec my-fontset-spec)

It seems that font names from the fontconfig service also work:

	(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'gb18030 '("STFangsong". "unicode- 
bmp")

or, with a particular size:

	(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'gb18030 '("STFangsong-16".  
"unicode-bmp")

Fontsets are documented in GNU Emacs' info system (C-h i).

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  Pete

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