When Zoom out font, don't enlarge the weight of font

When Zoom out font, don't enlarge the weight of font

[filebat]

Hi all
When I zoom out font by "M-x text-scale-increase",  fonts become too
bold.
Is there any way to make sure the weight of font is not enlarged so heavily?

I noticed that when I trigger "text-scale-increase", only fonset changes.
Say, change from "-outline-Lucida Sans
Typewriter-normal-normal-normal-mono-15-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 (#x10)"
to "-outline-Lucida Sans
Typewriter-normal-normal-normal-mono-18-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 (#x10)"

I tried to change the font step from 1.2 to 1.1 like below. It looks
better, but doesn't solve my problem.
(set-default 'text-scale-mode-step 1.1);;Set the zoom rate

Thanks,
Denny
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RE: When Zoom out font, don't enlarge the weight of font

[Drew Adams]

> When I zoom out font by "M-x text-scale-increase",  fonts become too
> bold. Is there any way to make sure the weight of font is not 
> enlarged so heavily?
> 
> I noticed that when I trigger "text-scale-increase", only 
> fonset changes.
> Say, change from "-outline-Lucida Sans
> Typewriter-normal-normal-normal-mono-15-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 (#x10)"
> to "-outline-Lucida Sans
> Typewriter-normal-normal-normal-mono-18-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 (#x10)"
> 
> I tried to change the font step from 1.2 to 1.1 like below. It looks
> better, but doesn't solve my problem.
> (set-default 'text-scale-mode-step 1.1)

Someone else may be able to help better. I would suggest finding more info:

What happens when those two fonts are displayed outside Emacs? Does the 18pt
font look bold then also?

What happens if you change the font for the frame instead of using
`text-scale-increase'? E.g. set the `font' frame parameter.

Depending on the answers, you might need to report an Emacs bug (e.g. if the
problem comes only from `text-scale-increase'.

Re: When Zoom out font, don't enlarge the weight of font

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.08.2010 um 14:47 schrieb filebat:

> When I zoom out font by "M-x text-scale-increase",  fonts become too
> bold.
> Is there any way to make sure the weight of font is not enlarged so  
> heavily?


Yes: anti-aliasing and a good font renderer in the X server and a very  
good font backend used by GNU Emacs.

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Re: When Zoom out font, don't enlarge the weight of font

[filebat Mark]

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It's a pity, my env is cygwin + ntemacs23.

Regards,
Denny

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>wrote:

>
> Am 19.08.2010 um 14:47 schrieb filebat:
>
>
>  When I zoom out font by "M-x text-scale-increase",  fonts become too
>> bold.
>> Is there any way to make sure the weight of font is not enlarged so
>> heavily?
>>
>
>
> Yes: anti-aliasing and a good font renderer in the X server and a very good
> font backend used by GNU Emacs.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>  Pete
>
> The best way to accelerate a PC is 9.8 m/s²
>
>


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Denny Zhang

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