From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Find the size of a glyph of a character Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 22:15:40 +0100 Message-ID: <87tuqyktxf.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <6EFC81F3-59B8-4329-9CD6-B4D580436776@gmail.com> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36069"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:MFMwPyUHo6AdRQEtc/p03o0trCk= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 30 22:16:50 2021 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 1l5xbt-0009I1-IR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 22:16:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53746 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l5xbs-0005j9-IY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:16:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l5xax-00059Z-7B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:15:51 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:36418) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l5xav-00072e-Jk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:15:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l5xas-00082R-8j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 22:15:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:127462 Archived-At: 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... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal