From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vinicius Jose Latorre Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Doc-string and default of ps-font-size Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:37:00 -0300 Message-ID: <46C4D18C.7080205@ig.com.br> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187303728 9134 80.91.229.12 (16 Aug 2007 22:35:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:35:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: cs-usenet@arcor.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 17 00:35:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ILnw5-0002ws-3H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:35:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILnw4-0001Mn-Gz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:35:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILnw1-0001Mi-8z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:35:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILnvy-0001MW-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:35:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILnvy-0001MT-H3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:35:18 -0400 Original-Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.225]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ILnvy-00031m-4L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:35:18 -0400 Original-Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so306899wra for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:35:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:sender; b=ZI4R2Cjek8/3O6Mmcu42j0fcm6GkxrkqCrXpMDpaH9Qqgq45XXAnmek56C7l8P3WraPryPDEKxC45EatAPMUXRqXVm3/1zHAv+vt9Dgr48wPDzxCftLoXV/VvdHWvxbqZ39kHYLz65A+VAn2mYatMKAOva2S5h+TKoKxqlwjnSc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:sender; b=F/H9JWSLKKMaOgowDFQsp5RhQMegLa2Hye9Jo7SKsXJmLx1tZuS8cSe/K5M6W2FnmGwv+xFp7rVeFj6WcZQyjLsiQu6OXh+2YpeY/URdNNrK5h4PylsTNhd+5lK3pDRG0hVClA4lXU+25sUw0z7r1+bQ1/IH1/e/w3wdtUJ6fMs= Original-Received: by 10.90.69.8 with SMTP id r8mr3533086aga.1187303716158; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:35:16 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?201.82.139.153? ( [201.82.139.153]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm2447355agb.2007.08.16.15.35.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:35:10 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 In-Reply-To: X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76647 Archived-At: Christian Schlauer wrote: > Hello! > > In the Emacs 22 branch, ps-font-size is documented like this: > > ,----[ C-h v ps-font-size ] > | ps-font-size is a variable defined in `ps-print.el'. > | Its value is (7 . 8.5) > | > | Documentation: > | *Font size, in points, for ordinary text, when generating PostScript. > | > | You can customize this variable. > `---- > > It doesn't explain why there are two values. Clicking on `customize' > does reveal that the first value is for landscape and the second for > portrait mode. Something like that should be added to the doc-string. > > But the actual reason why I write is that IMO, the font size should be > the same for both portrait and landscape mode by default. I think the > portrait font size is fine. Like most people (I guess) I usually print > portrait, and when I deliberately decide to print something in > landscape, I expect that it'll look the same, just with longer lines. > I don't expect a smaller font. > > Now Emacs is acting too preemptive here and seems to think "whoah, > need to squeeze more on each line because the user requested > landscape". Then user walks to the printer, sees and thinks "D'oh! > Won't be able to read this late at night (or on the bus) because the > font size is smaller than usual." > > Regards, > > Christian > Sorry for the delay. Glenn Morris has already fixed the ps-font-size docstring in Emacs 22 branch and trunk. I've just fixed other ps-*-font-size docstring in Emacs 22 branch, trunk and Emacs Unicode. Thanks for your report, Vinicius