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Re: font too small or too big
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Charles Philip Chan |
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Re: font too small or too big |
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Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:10:49 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
>>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dyballa <peter_dyballa@web.de> writes:
> PD> This is not your task, the X server will do it. On-the-fly. Just
> PD> request it!
Are you sure? It looks like the OP is using a bitmap font with fixed
sizes.
> OK to test it I even tried
> # su - nobody #super clean environment
> $ HOME=/tmp emacs -fn
> -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--48-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1
To get an arbitrary size you should be using a scalable font (ie
truetype, type 1, etc). For example, if you have the DejaVu fonts
installed, try:
emacs -fn "DejaVu Sans Mono-16"
> besides the man page says
> -fn font, --font font
> Set the Emacs window's font to that specified by font.
> You will find the various X fonts in the
> /usr/lib/X11/fonts directory.
> But here on Debian Sid there is no such directory.
Try /usr/share/fonts
Charles
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