From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Susi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Font size innacuracies (Windows) Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:21:38 -0500 Message-ID: <87h78hhhu3.fsf@vps.thesusis.net> References: <865yoy9dii.fsf@csic.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19514"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.7.0; emacs 27.1 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Juan =?utf-8?Q?Jos=C3=A9_Garc=C3=ADa-Ripoll?= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 15:38:05 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nP3dc-0004zh-34 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 15:38:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54418 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nP3db-0002OG-4p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:38:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41238) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nP3QM-0005It-JN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:24:22 -0500 Original-Received: from vps.thesusis.net ([34.202.238.73]:47474) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nP3QJ-0007bB-Vp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:24:21 -0500 Original-Received: by vps.thesusis.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6AA0B7DC6C; Tue, 1 Mar 2022 09:23:48 -0500 (EST) In-reply-to: <865yoy9dii.fsf@csic.es> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=34.202.238.73; envelope-from=phill@thesusis.net; helo=vps.thesusis.net X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136312 Archived-At: Juan Jos=C3=A9 Garc=C3=ADa-Ripoll writes: > Hi, > > I am trying to reproduce a setup I am happy with in Visual Code to > Emacs. In particular, on VSCode I use Consolas at 14px, which is the > default setting and has the right density on my monitor. However, when I > try similar specifications on Emacs, it produces different results. Eh? This appears to be a true type font, and those you spepcify the desired size in points, not pixels, don't you? And windows has always screwed up the conversion from points because they assume that all monitors are 96 DPI.