From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Uniform font size for English and Tamil text inside GNU Emacs Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 22:52:55 +0300 Message-ID: <83r3pqnd9k.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433534015 18975 80.91.229.3 (5 Jun 2015 19:53:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 19:53:35 +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 Jun 05 21:53:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0xg1-0004zv-KP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 21:53:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49332 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0xg0-000167-MX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:53:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55143) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0xfr-00015r-5w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:53:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0xfn-0005HT-Vh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:53:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:57970) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0xfn-0005Gl-ND for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:52:59 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NPH00400LST2Q00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 22:52:20 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NPH001WVLV8GF20@mtaout29.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 22:52:20 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104777 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 23:40:27 +0530 > From: Shakthi Kannan > > I create UTF-8 files in GNU Emacs 24.3.1 with both English and Tamil > (native language) text. An example is illustrated below: > > http://shakthimaan.com/dump/emacs-english-tamil.png > > I see that the Tamil font size is very small when compared to the > English text. Doesn't happen to me, I see them both in very similar size. > I use the following in my emacs init scripts: > > (defun fontify-frame (frame) > (set-frame-parameter frame 'font "DejaVu Sans Mono")) What happens if you don't do this customization? Do you have another font that supports Tamil? (On my system, there's Latha.) > Is there a way to get both the language font texts to be of the same > size You need to make sure you avoid bad fonts, I think.