Re: Default face problem [was: Re: incomplete header-line with 3d boxes and prop fonts]

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <m3aca6lyrz.fsf_-_@kfs-l.imdomain.dk>, storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>> Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de> writes:
>> 
>>>>> I still do see a heavy misalignment of the header line in ses (with
>>>>> X11), but only when using a font with an odd size
>>>>> (-*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 here).
>> 
>> I see it too.
>> 
>> If I customize the default face, and change the height from 99 to 100,
>> it works again.  I'll look into what's wrong.

This is because the current Emacs refuses to use an
auto-scaled font because it's usually too agree to use for
the editing work.  It at first checks the availability of
the specified font (without checking it's auto-scaled or
not), but, later on deciding a font for a face, it lists
fonts matching with family-name and registry-name, then
selects the best one among them.  On this selection,
auto-scaled font is refused even if scalable-fonts-allowed
is non-nil.  So, in your case the 16-dots font (that is
surely included in terminus font package) is selected.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org