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Re: font question
From: |
Jason Rumney |
Subject: |
Re: font question |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:52:24 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) |
Chip Coldwell wrote:
> I wonder if there isn't a missing XINT somewhere. Here's my default
> face:
>
> Face: default (sample) (customize this face)
> Documentation: Basic default face.
> Defined in `faces.el'.
>
> Family: DejaVu Sans Mono
> Foundry: unknown
> Width: normal
> Height: 96
[snip]
> Font: #<font-object -unknown-DejaVu Sans
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-0-iso8859-1>
>
> Note that "Height: 96" but the XLFD, contains "-12-" in the pxlsz
> field.
customize-face default shows:
[X] Height: [Value Menu] Height in 1/10 pt: 96
perhaps describe-face should also show the units here, to avoid confusion.
Note that
>
> #define XINT(a) (((EMACS_INT) (a)) >> GCTYPEBITS)
>
> and
>
> #define GCTYPEBITS 3
>
> on my platform, thus
>
> XINT(96) == 96 >> 3 == 96/8 == 12
I think this is coincidence. A 12 pixel height at 90dpi comes out to 9.6
points, is your display set to 90dpi (within fontconfig or X config, or
autodetected by X)?