From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juan =?utf-8?Q?Jos=C3=A9_Garc=C3=ADa-Ripoll?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Font size innacuracies (Windows) Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:48:29 +0100 Message-ID: <86wnhd7jxu.fsf@csic.es> References: <865yoy9dii.fsf@csic.es> <87h78hhhu3.fsf@vps.thesusis.net> <86fso19003.fsf@csic.es> <87k0ddithk.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28621"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (windows-nt) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:vtxsGKGzS1mAXUyyVqkPg721q8c= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 16:49:07 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nP4kK-0007D1-PH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:49:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46256 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nP4kJ-0000xh-DF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:49:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43508) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nP4jv-0000wt-Ht for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:48:39 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:38004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nP4ju-0003Tz-1V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:48:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nP4js-0006eX-IY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:48:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136317 Archived-At: Same as if you put the pixel size in the name. Robert Pluim writes: >>>>>> On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:16:12 +0100, Juan José García-Ripoll > said: > > Juan> I don't know. In principle the manual states that one can select pixels > Juan> in the name of the font, e.g. in set-frame-font. I tried it and changing > Juan> "Consolas:pixelsize=14" to "Consolas:pixelsize=12" does indeed change > Juan> the size. > > Juan> In any case, what bothers me is that (i) even if Windows screws the > Juan> conversion, I do not find a suitable point or pixel size that matches > Juan> other applications (ii) the density of characters is different, both > Juan> vertically and horizontally, despite being monospaced fonts, (iii) the > Juan> difference in kerning and spacing is more remarked for variable-pitch > Juan> fonts. > > What happens if you use 'menu-set-font' instead? > > Robert -- Juan José García Ripoll http://juanjose.garciaripoll.com http://quinfog.hbar.es