Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 12.06.2012 um 19:02 schrieb XeCycle: > >> I want to tweak it into 14x20, but don't know how to do that. > > Why not use a better font? I started to look into the fonts of > Mac OS X 10.6.8. The first I found is BiauKai; 6.1d3e1; > 2008-08-11 from DynaLab Inc. It is missing some Latin characters > to display umlauts and other accented characters, but it has > Latin and Greek characters that seem to fit into the same box as > Chinese ideograms. Similar, with many Japanese and Korean > ideograms, are Hei Regular; 6.1d3e1; 2008-08-11 and Kai Regular; > 6.1d1e1; 2008-08-18, both from Shanghai Ikarus Ltd./URW Software > & Type GmbH. A bit better Heiti TC Light; 7.0d6e1; 2010-03-01 and > Heiti SC Medium; 7.0d6e1; 2010-03-01, both from Changzhou > SinoType Technology Co., Ltd., do appear. They have many accented > Latin characters. There must be more quite complete fonts. I know well that I can choose other fonts, also I know some without this problem. But I'm a big fan of Courier, and like the one I use now; so I want to keep it. I read and write Chinese less often, just want to have them shown normally, with little need of beauty. > You don't need to use pixel based fonts from or for X11. Modern > Emacsen can make use of the TrueType and OpenType font > technologies – and these font formats are also supported by the X > server resp. libfontconfig. The two fonts I use now are all OpenType. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591