From: Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@bell.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: font too small or too big
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:10:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871u2os0dy.fsf@karnak.MagnumOpus.khem> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87li0w2sm7.fsf@jidanni.org
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jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
>>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dyballa <peter_dyballa@web.de> writes:
> PD> This is not your task, the X server will do it. On-the-fly. Just
> PD> request it!
Are you sure? It looks like the OP is using a bitmap font with fixed
sizes.
> OK to test it I even tried
> # su - nobody #super clean environment
> $ HOME=/tmp emacs -fn
> -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--48-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1
To get an arbitrary size you should be using a scalable font (ie
truetype, type 1, etc). For example, if you have the DejaVu fonts
installed, try:
emacs -fn "DejaVu Sans Mono-16"
> besides the man page says
> -fn font, --font font
> Set the Emacs window's font to that specified by font.
> You will find the various X fonts in the
> /usr/lib/X11/fonts directory.
> But here on Debian Sid there is no such directory.
Try /usr/share/fonts
Charles
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-10 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-10 12:46 font too small or too big jidanni
2013-11-10 14:00 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-11-10 14:37 ` jidanni
2013-11-10 14:51 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-11-10 15:17 ` jidanni
2013-11-10 16:10 ` Charles Philip Chan [this message]
2013-11-10 17:29 ` Peter Dyballa
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