From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: set-face-attribute width condensed/expanded no difference? (Mac) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:28:37 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <73a54179-b126-4471-89de-50272db451b0@s36g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: <1f45329e-f7a5-4006-b48a-bcb23e69fac0@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <1d2a87ac-4d20-499d-9dcb-49cab27d3cf8@e4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195843245 18946 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2007 18:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:40:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 23 19:40:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IvdSI-0002Jq-LE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:40:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IvdS4-0004Q8-08 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:40:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s36g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.236.97.82 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1195842517 24773 127.0.0.1 (23 Nov 2007 18:28:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s36g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.236.97.82; posting-account=qPxGtQkAAADb6PWdLGiWVucht1ZDR6fn User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/523.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Content-Disposition: inline Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154017 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49448 Archived-At: about choosing a font with narrow spacing ... In carbon emacs, you can turn on a bunch of unicode fonts that wouldn't normally show. do this: ; make available extra CJK-font for carbon emacs in the menu (if (eq window-system 'mac) (require 'carbon-font)) currently i use the following font: ; about carbon emacs fonts, see /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/ Resources/site-lisp/mac/carbon-font.el (if (featurep 'carbon-emacs-package) (fixed-width-set-default-fontset "-*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-hirakaku_w6")) not sure how this compares to your desired narrowness but worth a shot. Xah xah@xahlee.org $B-t(B http://xahlee.org/ On Nov 23, 7:18 am, Presto wrote: > On Nov 23, 5:56 pm, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > > Am 23.11.2007 um 14:21 schrieb Presto: > > > > In Leopard's Terminal I can choose Andale Mono and adjust the > > > character spacing with a slider control, so I thought this was a > > > dynamically calculated feature. I'm hoping Emacs works the same way. > > > Neither Carbon Emacsen nor Emacs.app support this. Yet. > > Thanks for the information. Is there any hack (possibly involving > building from source) with which I could set character spacing? Even > setting a constant for all fonts would suffice. > > Alternatively, is there a source code file in CVS that I can track to > discover when support is added? (Looking at commit logs) > > -m