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From: moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Find the size of a glyph of a character
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 22:15:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuqyktxf.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6EFC81F3-59B8-4329-9CD6-B4D580436776@gmail.com

Yuan Fu wrote:

> I want to find out the size of the glyph of a character.
> If I know the font, I can use font-get-glyphs. So the real
> question is how can I find the font used for a particular
> character in a particular face?

Did you try `describe-face' and `describe-char'?

First type, then `backward-char', then invoke...

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-30 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-30 21:06 Find the size of a glyph of a character Yuan Fu
2021-01-30 21:15 ` moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-01-31  3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii

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