From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Schlauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Doc-string and default of ps-font-size Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:25:15 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: cs-usenet@arcor.de NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186691785 23246 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2007 20:36:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 20:36:25 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 09 22:36:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IJEjr-00088G-Uc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:36:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJEjr-0001SW-Du for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IJEip-0000kg-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IJEin-0000ja-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJEin-0000jV-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IJEin-0005fW-1A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IJEik-0008He-JE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:35:02 +0200 Original-Received: from finn.gmane.org ([80.91.229.4]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:35:02 +0200 Original-Received: from cs-usenet by finn.gmane.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:35:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: finn.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76274 Archived-At: Hello! In the Emacs 22 branch, ps-font-size is documented like this: ,----[ C-h v ps-font-size ] | ps-font-size is a variable defined in `ps-print.el'. | Its value is (7 . 8.5) | | Documentation: | *Font size, in points, for ordinary text, when generating PostScript. | | You can customize this variable. `---- It doesn't explain why there are two values. Clicking on `customize' does reveal that the first value is for landscape and the second for portrait mode. Something like that should be added to the doc-string. But the actual reason why I write is that IMO, the font size should be the same for both portrait and landscape mode by default. I think the portrait font size is fine. Like most people (I guess) I usually print portrait, and when I deliberately decide to print something in landscape, I expect that it'll look the same, just with longer lines. I don't expect a smaller font. Now Emacs is acting too preemptive here and seems to think "whoah, need to squeeze more on each line because the user requested landscape". Then user walks to the printer, sees and thinks "D'oh! Won't be able to read this late at night (or on the bus) because the font size is smaller than usual." Regards, Christian