Re: "Why is emacs so square?"

[Tomas Hlavaty]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > See window-text-pixel-size as one example of what we have.  The
>> > underlying functionality is even more powerful.
>> 
>> (window-text-pixel-size) returns nonsense in console.
>
> It does?  Can you show an example?  Or, better yet, make a bug report
> about the problematic case(s)?

bug report sent

>> >> > We already can display such thin lines, see, for example, help-fns.el
>> >> > (search for ":height").  No X-level graphics is needed.
>> 
>> X graphics is seems to be needed.
>
> You need a GUI frame (not necessarily on X), but that's all.  There's
> no need to expose Xlib calls to Lisp, which was what the original
> question was about.

ok, thanks for clarification