Re: [Bug: 21.4.17] Proportional font too large
* Aidan Kehoe (2005-03-17) writes:
Ar an seachtú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh Ralf Angeli:
> I moved the Type1 directory to the last position of the list of font
> paths and restarted the X server. After this the font looked even
> worse, i.e. it was as large as the URW font but with rough edges.
Hmm, I could have sworn that the XFree86 people turned off the scaling of
bitmap fonts by default before 4.3.0. I think it is the bitmap Adobe
font--if it _had_ been aliased to the URW font, the font-truename would have
returned “nimbus sans l” as its name. Perhaps Debian have re-enabled bitmap
font scaling on your system.
This could well be because AFAIK they patched it up with many things
done during development of 4.4.0 until the point the licence was
changed.
There’s always a certain amount of gambling when choosing a default
font as
an application in X11; the most important thing, and it can be surprisingly
easy to have that fail, is to not have the app crash[1]. After that, well,
if someone has an atypical setup, and their fonts look horrible, that’s not
sometyhing you can avoid.
As you are referring to GNU Emacs with the crash you are mentioning, I
am tempted to refer to it as well when I say that there are
applications which actually are able to avoid horribly looking
fonts. (c;
> I found that I can help XEmacs a bit if I explicitely specify
the size
> of the face. That means when customizing the face it does not come
> out as big as before if I activate the "Size" specifier and insert
> "18pt" besides the "helvetica" for the font family. But it
still is
> noticably larger than the 18-pixel default font.
Oww! When I do that on my machine, it’s even huger and more surprising.
Though perhaps just about acceptable for section
headings. “-Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--25-180-100-100-P-130-ISO8859-1”
is the full xlfd.
That's actually what I am getting as well. So XEmacs seems to have a
problem only if there is no size specified.
--
Ralf