From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: "Juan José García-Ripoll" <juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font size innacuracies (Windows)
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:26:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0ddithk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86fso19003.fsf@csic.es> ("Juan José García-Ripoll"'s message of "Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:16:12 +0100")
>>>>> On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:16:12 +0100, Juan José García-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com> said:
Juan> I don't know. In principle the manual states that one can select pixels
Juan> in the name of the font, e.g. in set-frame-font. I tried it and changing
Juan> "Consolas:pixelsize=14" to "Consolas:pixelsize=12" does indeed change
Juan> the size.
Juan> In any case, what bothers me is that (i) even if Windows screws the
Juan> conversion, I do not find a suitable point or pixel size that matches
Juan> other applications (ii) the density of characters is different, both
Juan> vertically and horizontally, despite being monospaced fonts, (iii) the
Juan> difference in kerning and spacing is more remarked for variable-pitch
Juan> fonts.
What happens if you use 'menu-set-font' instead?
Robert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-01 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-01 10:24 Font size innacuracies (Windows) Juan José García-Ripoll
2022-03-01 14:21 ` Phillip Susi
2022-03-01 15:16 ` Juan José García-Ripoll
2022-03-01 15:26 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2022-03-01 15:48 ` Juan José García-Ripoll
2022-03-01 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-02 7:43 ` Juan José García-Ripoll
2022-03-02 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-01 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-02 7:19 ` Juan José García-Ripoll
2022-03-02 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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