From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Setting font to Lucida Grande on Mac OS X Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 07:04:09 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200309201204.h8KC49J29679@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200309151509.h8FF95Z22652@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87y8wpie1w.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <200309170234.h8H2YH706063@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87pthzfvt3.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <3F68584E.7010900@gnu.org> <200309171655.h8HGtbl08972@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87d6dx82kq.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <200309191434.h8JEYdH24981@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064060277 5241 80.91.224.253 (20 Sep 2003 12:17:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:17:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 20 14:17:52 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A0ggS-0005qs-00 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:17:52 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A0glL-00083a-00 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:22:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A0gXE-0007ti-8U for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A0gWX-0007sy-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:07:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A0gWV-0007sQ-AY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A0gWT-0007s0-49; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:07:33 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h8KC7VAJ006803; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 07:07:31 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id h8KC49J29679; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 07:04:09 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 20 Sep 2003 03:50:01 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16508 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16508 Richard Stallman wrote: ! By default, Emacs displays text in a font which makes each character ! seven pixels wide and twelve pixels high. I don't think that is true. The default font seems to have the same height as 9x15, but a different width. It depends on the screen resolution. I already corrected this in the latest patch I sent. I believe that the new description of the default as a "twelve point Courier" should be generally valid, at least under X, as long as the font is available. Sincerely, Luc.