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Re: Display characters with a different size?
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Re: Display characters with a different size? |
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Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:05:40 +0800 |
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Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.de> writes:
> Am 12.06.2012 um 19:02 schrieb XeCycle:
>
>> I want to tweak it into 14x20, but don't know how to do that.
>
> Why not use a better font? I started to look into the fonts of
> Mac OS X 10.6.8. The first I found is BiauKai; 6.1d3e1;
> 2008-08-11 from DynaLab Inc. It is missing some Latin characters
> to display umlauts and other accented characters, but it has
> Latin and Greek characters that seem to fit into the same box as
> Chinese ideograms. Similar, with many Japanese and Korean
> ideograms, are Hei Regular; 6.1d3e1; 2008-08-11 and Kai Regular;
> 6.1d1e1; 2008-08-18, both from Shanghai Ikarus Ltd./URW Software
> & Type GmbH. A bit better Heiti TC Light; 7.0d6e1; 2010-03-01 and
> Heiti SC Medium; 7.0d6e1; 2010-03-01, both from Changzhou
> SinoType Technology Co., Ltd., do appear. They have many accented
> Latin characters. There must be more quite complete fonts.
I know well that I can choose other fonts, also I know some
without this problem. But I'm a big fan of Courier, and like the
one I use now; so I want to keep it. I read and write Chinese
less often, just want to have them shown normally, with little
need of beauty.
> You don't need to use pixel based fonts from or for X11. Modern
> Emacsen can make use of the TrueType and OpenType font
> technologies – and these font formats are also supported by the X
> server resp. libfontconfig.
The two fonts I use now are all OpenType.
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