From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rodrigo Morales Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: [Question] How to change the height of the box for unprintable glyphs? 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Some days ago, I noticed that some lines in a =*terminal*= buffer were shown with a different height. This caused the tmux status bar when it is shown at the top to be shown out of the =*terminal*= buffer. This is undesired behavior. I learned that this happened because Emacs tries to display some characters using different fonts which might have different heights. For this reason, I started looking for a bitmap font which defines glyphs for all Unicode characters. Thus, by using a single font, the height of all lines would be the same. I found GNU Unifont. I downloaded the file =unifont-15.1.05.pcf.gz= from https://unifoundry.com/unifont/ . Then, I decompressed the file using =gunzip= and copied the file =unifont-15.1.05.bdf= to =~/.fonts=. Finally, I executed =fc-cache -f -v=. I launched =emacs -Q /tmp/a.txt= (the contents of =/tmp/a.txt= are shown in the first code block below). #+HEADER: :tangle /tmp/a.txt #+BEGIN_SRC text Line 1: Hello! Line 2: 你好！ Line 3: 𑂩𑂰𑂧𑂩𑂰𑂧 ("Hello" in Kaithi, retrieved from HELLO buffer in GNU Emacs 29.3) #+END_SRC I then tried to make Emacs display all characters only using Unifont. If the glyph is not defined by Unifont, then a box with the hexadecimal notation of the character should be shown. I accomplished this by evaluating the following sexpL #+HEADER: :results silent #+BEGIN_SRC elisp (progn (set-fontset-font "fontset-startup" '(#x000000 . #x3FFFFF) "Unifont") (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" '(#x000000 . #x3FFFFF) "Unifont")) #+END_SRC Upon evaluation of the sexp, all characters in the buffer =a.txt= except characters in line 3 were shown using GNU Unifont, boxes with hexadecimal notation were shown in line 3. See screenshot in http://web.archive.org/web/20240515172349/http://0x0.st/XK5h.png The boxes shown in line 3 significantly increased the height of that line. =(line-pixel-height= returned 16 in line 1 and line 2, but it returned 37 in line 3. * The question How to reduce the height of the rectangle containing hexadecimal notation that Emacs uses to display characters for which no font was found? * The XY problem To avoid [[https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=542341][the XY problem]], I want to make clear that my main goal is to use a bitmap font in a =*terminal*= buffer and ensure that all lines have the same height (the X). One way that I found to accomplish this is by using a bitmap font that defines glyphs for most characters. However, this raised the problem that undefined glyphs are shown with a larger height (the Y).