From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charles Philip Chan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: font too small or too big Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:10:49 -0500 Message-ID: <871u2os0dy.fsf@karnak.MagnumOpus.khem> References: <0F157BC5-EE2E-4DC2-9F1C-9081C48754FC@web.de> <87li0w2sm7.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384099726 24927 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2013 16:08:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:08:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 10 17:08:51 2013 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 1VfXZ9-00037H-Bt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 17:08:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60753 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VfXZ8-0007wb-Ta for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:08:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50366) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VfXYs-0007vY-J2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:08:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VfXYl-0005X4-79 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:08:30 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48051) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VfXYk-0005Vw-W4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:08:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VfXYj-0002am-Bg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 17:08:21 +0100 Original-Received: from bas10-toronto01-845463080.dsl.bell.ca ([50.100.190.40]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 17:08:21 +0100 Original-Received: from cpchan by bas10-toronto01-845463080.dsl.bell.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 17:08:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 54 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bas10-toronto01-845463080.dsl.bell.ca X-Face: G; Z,`sm>)4t4LB/GUrgH$W`!AmfHMj,LG)Z}X0ax@s9:0>0)B&@vcm{v-le)wng)?|o]D\Z}0:6X User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kl26jZjeByweohpmCv7h3dBC6Ww= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:94429 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable jidanni@jidanni.org writes: >>>>>> "PD" =3D=3D Peter Dyballa writes: > PD> This is not your task, the X server will do it. On-the-fly. Just > PD> request it! Are you sure? It looks like the OP is using a bitmap font with fixed sizes. > OK to test it I even tried > # su - nobody #super clean environment > $ HOME=3D/tmp emacs -fn > -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--48-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1 To get an arbitrary size you should be using a scalable font (ie truetype, type 1, etc). For example, if you have the DejaVu fonts installed, try: emacs -fn "DejaVu Sans Mono-16" > besides the man page says > -fn font, --font font > Set the Emacs window's font to that specified by = font. > You will find the various X fonts in = the > /usr/lib/X11/fonts directory. > But here on Debian Sid there is no such directory. Try /usr/share/fonts Charles =2D-=20 "Absolutely nothing should be concluded from these figures except that no conclusion can be drawn from them." (By Joseph L. Brothers, Linux/PowerPC Project) --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlJ/sBMACgkQ3epPyyKbwPYXWwCgij3CkN8OKmPKNQc8hDd/NDH7 SigAoLsVmJ3hXBRmq2Z4tY930R82YQsc =ECJF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--