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From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The relationship of settings for font in init.el and the one shown on "Pick a font" UI.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 22:39:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6POKXnvoXZDjQNVOmM3mtvObvty2nce_fU-DQBVHVR0mXCA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tursltvo.fsf@gnu.org>

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:12 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 10:25:44 +0800
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >
> > > Which is the problematic part?  The font name got recorded as
> > > "family", is that the problem?  If not what is?
> >
> > I mean the following relationships:
> >
> > Book -- normal
>
> That's expected: you cannot tell Emacs to use non-normal font for the
> default face's font.  Emacs needs to be able to express "bold",
> "italics", and "bold-italics" faces from the default font.
>
> > Font size 14 --  height 143
>
> Pixels vs font units.

Do you mean 1Pixel = 1/10pt?

BR,
-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic University of Science and Technology engineering
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China



  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-07 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-06  8:33 The relationship of settings for font in init.el and the one shown on "Pick a font" UI Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-06  8:34 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-06 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07  2:25   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-07  2:27     ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-01-07 14:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07 14:11     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07 14:39       ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2021-01-07 15:04         ` Eli Zaretskii

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