From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: recent emacs font problems?
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:29:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1276F87E-9CF3-11D7-A1FC-00039363E640@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E19QSgD-0003RH-85@fencepost.gnu.org>
> Thank you. However, I still can't understand how things are
> supposed to
> work. In my .Xdefaults I set default font to courier-14. Now if I
> do (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "fixed"), shall new
> frames
> get courier-14 or fixed-14?
>
> The set-face-attribute call should certainly override the X resource.
> So the family must be "fixed".
Okay.
>
> Currently they get fixed-14 but with the
> font metrics of courier-14,
>
> I am not completely sure what that means. Do you mean that Emacs
> chooses the font fixed-14 but uses some data taken from the wrong
> font? That is clearly a bug. Whichever font is chosen, Emacs
> should use it consistently.
It means that when Emacs calculates pixel width and height of the new
frame
it uses the width and height of courier-14, but then renders text with
fixed-14. I think the default face for the new frame has not been
realized
when this calculation occurs.
>
> If I select courier 12 from the shift-down-1 menu, shall I get
> courier-12
> or fixed-12? Currently I get fixed-12 (with courier-12 font
> metrics).
>
> This should select courier 12, the font that you chose.
Thanks,
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-12 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-09 12:06 recent emacs font problems? Jan D.
2003-06-10 0:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-06-10 18:18 ` Jan D.
2003-06-12 14:03 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-12 16:29 ` Jan D. [this message]
2003-06-13 22:03 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-26 21:32 ` Jan D.
2003-06-26 22:20 ` Sam Steingold
2003-07-07 21:51 ` David Abrahams
2003-07-07 22:16 ` Jason Rumney
2003-07-08 13:40 ` Sam Steingold
2003-07-09 1:31 ` Miles Bader
2003-07-11 20:33 ` David Abrahams
2003-07-11 21:51 ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-11 0:24 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-15 15:59 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-28 1:14 Miles Bader
2003-05-28 4:25 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-05-28 5:14 ` John Paul Wallington
2003-05-28 6:56 ` Miles Bader
2003-05-28 10:16 ` John Paul Wallington
2003-05-28 13:55 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-30 0:47 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-05-30 17:13 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-28 5:13 ` Karl Eichwalder
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