From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The relationship of settings for font in init.el and the one shown on "Pick a font" UI.
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:11:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tursltvo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGP6POJ-vZ9ue=vJWjHW6M5bJqb68Smbxoj97SEELcNcuKJaVA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Hongyi Zhao on Thu, 7 Jan 2021 10:25:44 +0800)
> From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 10:25:44 +0800
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> > Which is the problematic part? The font name got recorded as
> > "family", is that the problem? If not what is?
>
> I mean the following relationships:
>
> Book -- normal
That's expected: you cannot tell Emacs to use non-normal font for the
default face's font. Emacs needs to be able to express "bold",
"italics", and "bold-italics" faces from the default font.
> Font size 14 -- height 143
Pixels vs font units.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-07 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-06 8:33 The relationship of settings for font in init.el and the one shown on "Pick a font" UI Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-06 8:34 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-06 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07 2:25 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-07 2:27 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-07 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-01-07 14:39 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-07 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
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