From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Default font / size Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 22:30:03 +0300 Message-ID: <83podxuojo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8337atw7ve.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1498073465 28942 195.159.176.226 (21 Jun 2017 19:31:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 19:31:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 21 21:31:01 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dNlLA-0007Ht-A3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:31:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55657 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNlLF-0007u7-Ad for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50201) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNlKU-0007sR-94 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:30:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNlKR-0001F2-78 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:30:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33191) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNlKR-0001Ey-3y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3207 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dNlKQ-0002rq-4K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:30:14 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from John Mastro on Wed, 21 Jun 2017 12:15:03 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113546 Archived-At: > From: John Mastro > Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 12:15:03 -0700 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii > > > Or maybe you are asking why Emacs chooses size 12 for Consolas, but > > size 10 for Courier New, and what factors affect that? > > Indeed, that may be a better way of putting it. > > The way I was thinking of it, probably muddled, was: Emacs has some way > of selecting 10 as the font size when I don't specify a font, so I just > need to find a way to ask it to do that when I specify Consolas. > > But if 12 is selected for Consolas because of some difference(s) between > Courier New and Consolas then I probably can't avoid specifying the > size (without avoiding Consolas anyway). I think (but don't have time to check this now) that size 10 for Courier New is due to how the default fontset is set up on Windows, see w32-win.el. If I'm right, then perhaps you could tweak w32-standard-fontset-spec in your init file such that other fonts are also chosen with size 10. (Tweaking that variable needs to be done from one of the hooks defined by startup.el, I think.)