From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Joe Corneli <holtzermann17@gmail.com>
Cc: 19194@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19194: 24.4.50; `window-body-width' is not dynamic relative to font size changes
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:27:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <547823E2.2070104@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a93cqtob.fsf@gmail.com>
>> What is the width of a buffer? What are em-lenght units?
>
> I mean, the distance (in useful units!) from the left side of the
> buffer,
... a buffer has no "left side" unless you mean the value of how many
columns the buffer has been scrolled horizontally in some window ...
> as displayed within a given window, to the right side of that
> window. If the buffer is displayed using *a fixed width font*, then one
> useful unit is *columns*, i.e. the number of columns that can be
> displayed before line wrap or continuation kicks in. However, if the
> buffer is displayed using a variable-width font, then "columns" is *not*
> necessarily a meaningful unit -- as has been pointed out in the earlier
> discussion. In this case, see below for "ems."
>
> To be clear, the width of the *window* calculated in non-buffer-specific
> units is not generally "useful" for the purpose of measuring the number
> of characters that can be fit, horizontally, into the buffer.
".., into the window" I presume. Is it that what you want to do: Fit
characters into a window?
> Nevertheless, if the window is displayed using *the default face* at the
> default scale (and if the default font happens to be fixed width!) then
> `window-body-width' does indeed return the number of columns.
The number of columns available for displaying the buffer in the window.
> «An em is a unit in the field of typography, equal to the currently
> specified point size. For example, one em in a 16-point typeface is 16
> points. Therefore, this unit is the same for all typefaces at a given
> point size. [...] The name "em" was originally a reference to the
> width of the the capital "M" in the typeface and size being used,
> which was often the same as the point size.»
So you mean the width of a default face "M" in points here? No idea how
to get that. IIRC `nlinum-mode' tries to approximate that somehow.
>> (3) `text-scale-mode-amount' constitutes a request to the display engine
>> to scale a face height. What shall we do when our target machine
>> can't display the character with the requested height and uses, for
>> example, the nearest available height instead?
>
> Presumably the function should fall back to the height (and
> corresponding scale factor) that is actually used. This is an edge case
> that I hadn't considered!
Apparently it's possible to get the face actually used, but I don't
understand how.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-28 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-26 13:47 bug#19194: 24.4.50; `window-body-width' is not dynamic relative to font size changes Joe Corneli
2014-11-26 15:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-26 16:34 ` Joe Corneli
2014-11-26 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-26 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-27 9:44 ` martin rudalics
2014-11-27 10:54 ` Joe Corneli
2014-11-27 18:35 ` martin rudalics
2014-11-27 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-27 19:58 ` martin rudalics
2014-11-27 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-28 7:29 ` martin rudalics
2014-11-28 8:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-28 18:38 ` martin rudalics
2014-11-28 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-19 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-20 10:10 ` martin rudalics
2014-12-20 11:52 ` Joe Corneli
2014-12-20 14:49 ` martin rudalics
2014-12-20 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-20 16:31 ` martin rudalics
2014-12-20 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-20 17:51 ` martin rudalics
2014-12-20 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-27 20:23 ` Joe Corneli
2014-11-28 7:27 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2014-11-27 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-27 18:35 ` martin rudalics
2014-11-27 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-27 19:58 ` martin rudalics
2014-11-27 20:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-28 7:27 ` martin rudalics
2014-11-28 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-10 8:16 ` bug#19194: bug#20022: 24.4.90; window-body-height, window-body-width wrong value after text-scale-adjust Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-10 17:39 ` bug#19194: [External] : " Drew Adams
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