[AUCTeX-devel] Re: Font size of font-latex-title-*-face in XEmacs

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Apr 20 2005, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> I'm sick of getting spammed with "you're not a member".  Feel free to
> forward.

[ Not forwarded, but I won't trim the quotes in this message. ]

>>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     Reiner> My system is SuSE 9.2:
>
> I don't know that the problem I'm referring to exists on your system
> (or any system); I'm simply saying that XEmacs's font handling is
> known to be currently out of step with the way the world actually
> works.  We need to do a general overhaul; I advise you that if you
> observe problems in selecting fonts, there is nobody you can rely on
> to accurately explain what XEmacs currently does.

> I believe that if you are careful about the arithmetic and _never_
> specify sizes in points, only in pixels, you'll probably win.  But I'm
> not even sure of that, and anyway custom like points better then
> pixels.  So ... :-(

Changing "pt" to "px" in `font-latex.el' didn't produce better results
for me.

>     Reiner> I don't see anything wrong here.  Could you be more
>     Reiner> specific, please?
>
> The problem occurs when you have a 16-pixel 16-point font in 75dpi, and
> want an 16-pixel 12-point font in 100dpi.  What you will see in
> distros like Debian, at least in the past, is the equivalent of
>
> $ ls -l 100dpi/xyz.pcf.gz
> ... xyz.pcf.gz -> ../75dpi/xyz.pcf.gz
>
> Internally that font will tell you that it is a 16pt font, although on
> a 100dpi screen it will appear as a 12pt font, and the font list will
> show it as -misc-xyz-bla-bla-bla-bla--16-120-100-100-bla-bla-bla.
>
> Currently I have no symlinks in either 75dpi or 100dpi, so I guess
> Debian has stopped doing that.

I don't have such symlinks here.

Bye, Reiner.
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