Re: The relationship of settings for font in init.el and the one shown on "Pick a font" UI.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:25 AM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 11:30 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 16:33:13 +0800
> > >
> > > On the "Pick a font" UI, I select the following font and then "Save 
> > > Options":
> > >
> > > "DejaVuSansMono Nerd Font Mono Book"
> > >
> > > Then I noticed that emacs will generate the following settings in the 
> > > init.el:
> > >
> > > (custom-set-faces
> > >  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
> > >  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
> > >  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
> > >  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
> > >  '(default ((t (:family "DejaVuSansMono Nerd Font Mono" :foundry
> > > "PfEd" :slant normal :weight normal :height 143 :width normal)))))
> > >
> > > I still can't find out the exact correspondence between the settings
> > > for font in init.el and the one shown on "Pick a font" UI. Any hints
> > > will be highly appreciated.
> >
> > Which is the problematic part?  The font name got recorded as
> > "family", is that the problem?  If not what is?
>
> I mean the following relationships:
>
> Book -- normal
> Font size 14 --  height 143

As well as the following additional info which doesn't appear on the
"Pick a font" UI:

foundry
 "PfEd"

BR,
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Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic University of Science and Technology engineering
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China