Re: Emacs 28: bitmap fonts, vector font character spacing

[Christoph Groth]

Manuel Giraud wrote:
> Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org> writes:
> 
> > With Emacs 28.2 the default font is now much too small (I’m not even
> > sure whether it’s still Terminus).  It is possible to choose
> > Terminus with M-x menu-set-font, but this shows the same tiny font
> > independently of the chosen size.
> 
> FWIW, I'm still on "LoDPi" displays and I'm too using a bitmap font
> (uw-ttyp0 for me).  I' running current (bleeding edge) Emacs with
> cairo and my font are correct.  I do not use 'default-frame-alist but
> I'm setting font with: (set-frame-font "Terminus-16") for instance.
> Could you try it?
> 
> To see (among other things) the font used font a character, you could
> type 'C-u C-x =' on said character.

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion.  As said, I’m running Emacs 28.2 from Debian
stable.  When I execute (set-frame-font "Terminus-16") the effect is the
same as choosing Terminus through M-x menu-set-font: the default face
changes into a small monospace font, independently of the actually
requested size.

Using C-u C-x = provides:

ftcrhb:-PfEd-Terminus-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1 (#x33)

I find this strange, because it seems that a bitmap font can be
displayed after all, but only in one fixed size.

Still, as far as I am concerned I have made peace with the switch to
DejaVu Sans... (Which, I hear, is now superseded by the Noto family of
fonts, but hey, one step at a time.)

Cheers
Christoph

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