From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johnny Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Increase text size of echo area / mode line? Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 22:13:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87zkmbg5u7.fsf@gmx.co.uk> References: <87bp0ksee4.fsf@gmx.co.uk> <87ei3sxnwp.fsf@gmx.co.uk> <768A03CE-2C71-480E-9710-528498293825@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306271603 5714 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2011 21:13:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 21:13:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 23:13:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QOyul-0005JW-3G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 23:13:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42686 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOyuk-0005Vc-Kg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 17:13:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38607) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOyue-0005UT-E6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 17:13:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOyuc-0006o1-SW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 17:13:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com ([213.165.64.42]:33598) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOyuc-0006nx-D0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 17:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 May 2011 21:13:07 -0000 Original-Received: from 78-86-131-176.zone2.bethere.co.uk (EHLO DeuxExMachina) [78.86.131.176] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu003) with SMTP; 24 May 2011 23:13:07 +0200 X-Authenticated: #57368918 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18KsrId3gwKLvE8VZtfnj8JkszHyTGCPP6IK2xB4k 5ET96VlrbIXMYA In-Reply-To: <768A03CE-2C71-480E-9710-528498293825@Web.DE> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Sat, 21 May 2011 23:51:33 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 213.165.64.42 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:81235 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 21.05.2011 um 14:01 schrieb Johnny: > >> Any suggestions welcome! > > > Did you launch GNU Emacs with the -Q option? This means: without any > customisation. Now enter: C-h H! After some a buffer HELLO will > open. How is the size of the Chinese characters in this buffer? How is > the size of the characters when you perform your usual completion test > in mini-buffer? Yes, this all looks nice and tidy. > (defvar my-fontset-spec) > (setq my-fontset-spec > "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-normal, > chinese-big5-1:*-kai-*-*-15-*, > chinese-big5-2:*-kai-*-*-15-*" > ) > > (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec my-fontset-spec) > Ok, so I am struggling here. The info says: |- C-h f create-fontset-from-fontset-spec |When a frame uses the fontset as the `font' parameter, the frame's |default font name is derived from FONTSET-NAME by substituting |"iso8859-1" for the tail part "fontset-XXX" |------- I don't catch the drift at all. What is fontset-XXX? I guess we are specifying a fontset based on (or containing?) normal, big5-1 and big5-2 and then applying it? > It seems that font names from the fontconfig service also work: > > (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'gb18030 > ("STFangsong". "unicode- > bmp") > > or, with a particular size: > > (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'gb18030 > ("STFangsong-16". "unicode-bmp") This is alternate methods, I assume? But where does STFangsong come from and what happened to big5? > Fontsets are documented in GNU Emacs' info system (C-h i). Yes, I am reading that on and off, as well as Emacs wiki, http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FontSets, but I still don't get it. Fonts and faces seem to be one of the Emacs peculiarities, however I am sure it is a great system once getting the hang of it! But for now... My understanding so far is that I have only three fontsets installed (default, standard and startup). Typing Chinese seems to use one of the Charsets in the fontset (WenQuanYi) with a default size of 13, which can be increased by C-x +. I guess, what I would like to do is to by default use a larger size for the Chinese fonts, in particular the ones emacs itselfs puts in the minibuffer when offering completions. Maybe one has to set the same default size for all fonts in a buffer? If this is the case, I guess what I am trying to do is changing the default font size for the minibuffer? Thanks for your effort in explaining, I'll keep fiddling with this and see if I can make any progress! Regards, -- Johnny