font too small or too big

font too small or too big

[jidanni]

My favorite
	 (font . "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1")
is now too small for me, but
	 (font . "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1")
is too big, and there is no -20-, and other fonts are too ugly.

Yes I tried C-x C-= which runs the command text-scale-adjust.

Re: font too small or too big

[Peter Dyballa]

Modern X servers should be able to produce any intermediate size on the fly.

Did you try to display your intermediate size in xlfd or xfontsel?

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Re: font too small or too big

[jidanni]

>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
PD> Modern X servers should be able to produce any intermediate size on the fly.

PD> Did you try to display your intermediate size in xlfd or xfontsel?

xfontsel has 16,17,24 in black, the rest of the sizes in grey.

How do I make 20?

Re: font too small or too big

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.11.2013 um 15:37 schrieb jidanni@jidanni.org:

> How do I make 20?

This is not your task, the X server will do it. On-the-fly. Just request it!

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Re: font too small or too big

[jidanni]

>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dyballa <peter_dyballa@web.de> writes:

>> How do I make 20?

PD> This is not your task, the X server will do it. On-the-fly. Just request it!

OK to test it I even tried
# su - nobody #super clean environment
$ HOME=/tmp emacs -fn -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--48-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1
But that acts just like
$ emacs
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.

Re: font too small or too big

[Charles Philip Chan]

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jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

>>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dyballa <peter_dyballa@web.de> 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=/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

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Re: font too small or too big

[Peter Dyballa]

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Am 10.11.2013 um 17:10 schrieb Charles Philip Chan:

> Are you sure? It looks like the OP is using a bitmap font with fixed
> sizes.

Maybe you're right and the service only works for scalable fonts! (I stopped using bitmapped fonts in last millennium.)

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