From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: angeli@caeruleus.net,
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:45:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E99CCB.9050407@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85veom8jfz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
David Kastrup wrote:
> But the display geometries are our only pointer to getting the
> point/pixel relation coherent for fonts, so when in doubt, we should
> rather err in the same manner Windows selects its fonts rather than
> get it correct in opposition to all other applications and in
> particular the font selection.
>
How about calculating the font size yourself in the same way you
calculate image size, and specifying that in pixels to be consistent
with the images you are generating?
That seems to me to be the only way to get consistency, since the screen
geometry is not used by the OS in to calculate font sizes (even on X
AFAICT).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-21 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-06 17:50 display-mm-width return value off on Windows Ralf Angeli
2006-07-06 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-06 21:25 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-07 5:56 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-07 10:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-07 10:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-07 12:05 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-07 16:54 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-08 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-08 13:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-08 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-08 21:27 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-08 22:23 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-08 23:03 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-09 7:36 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-09 8:03 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-09 7:41 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-09 8:05 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-09 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-10 10:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-10 10:45 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-10 13:29 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-10 14:19 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-10 21:28 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-10 22:05 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-10 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-10 23:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-10 23:22 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-11 18:43 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-12 13:07 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-12 19:22 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-13 19:38 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-13 19:59 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-14 17:03 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-14 18:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-07-14 18:33 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-14 21:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-07-15 22:06 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-16 17:04 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-14 17:03 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-09 9:31 ` Jan Djärv
2006-07-08 17:40 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-07-06 22:09 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-06 22:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-07 5:50 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-07 9:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-05 14:50 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-19 15:15 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-19 15:37 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-19 16:31 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-19 17:54 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-19 22:34 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-20 8:19 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-21 9:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-21 9:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-21 10:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-21 10:36 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-21 11:45 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2006-08-21 11:55 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-21 10:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-21 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-21 15:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-21 19:22 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-21 23:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-22 5:57 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-22 19:16 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-22 21:38 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-23 18:31 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-23 22:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-24 16:14 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-24 20:18 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-25 16:38 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-25 22:28 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-21 23:25 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-22 5:51 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-22 7:46 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-22 19:24 ` Ralf Angeli
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-14 23:55 Robert J. Chassell
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