Re: Font size

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 01:33:16 +0700, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> said:

    Yuri> On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 at 01:24, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
    >> My question was whether the same units are likely to be used in the
    >> X+GTK build as they are in the PGTK build.  IOW, that your guess of
    >> the units being 1/96 inch is true or false for both of them.

    Yuri> I’m not related to GNOME or GTK+ development, but I would be much
    Yuri> surprised if font sizes were specified in anything other than points
    Yuri> (which are 1/72 in, not 1/96 in); and especially if GTK behaved
    Yuri> differently in that regard between X and Wayland and/or depended on
    Yuri> other factors other than poorly configured screen DPI.

Fontconfig talks about sizes in points (but allows them to be
fractional, the underlying data type is a double)

Robert
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