Re: Font pixel size selection

["Yuan MEI" <yuan.mei.list@gmail.com>]

OK, seems the `pixelsize' is interpreted as `point size'.  Should this be fixed?

On 6/15/08, Yuan MEI <yuan.mei.list@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     I have just updated to the cvs HEAD, (last was one month ago).
>  I set font in ~/.Xdefaults like:
>  Emacs.Font: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=14
>  Using one month ago version it did show 14 pixels font well
>
>  However now, with the same setting, the font changes to
>  -bitstream-Bitstream Vera Sans
>  Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso8859-1
>
>  And if I change it to
>  Emacs.Font: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-14
>  The result is even more weird.
>  -bitstream-Bitstream Vera Sans
>  Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-m-0-iso8859-1 (#x1E)
>
>  I can set
>  Emacs.Font: -*-Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
>  to force emacs to use 14 pixels font, but I wonder what caused this
>  behavior and is it desired?
>
>  Maybe this problem is also related to my upgration to freetype package
>  2.3.6 or libXft 2.1.12? on gentoo linux.
>
>  Thank you
>  --
>
> Yuan MEI
>


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