Re: Font size

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  masm+emacs@masm11.me,  Emacs developers
>  <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,  Kévin Le Gouguec
>  <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2021 16:51:57 +0200
> 
> >>>>> 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)

I wasn't talking about the Fontconfig format of specifying a font, I
was talking about the GTK format.  They are different, see the node
"Fonts" in the Emacs manual.