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:
> The font resulting from doing `M-x customize-face RET default RET',
> activating "Font Family", inserting "helvetica" (without
quotation
> marks) and clicking "State -> Set for Current Session" is _much_
> larger than the default font. This doesn't look quite right.
>
> In ~/.Xdefaults I set
> Emacs.Font: -*-terminal-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
> which gets picked up by XEmacs as well in case this is relevant.
I don’t see that. When I start an xemacs -vanilla with that resource in my
xrdb, and nothing else, I get a horrible, huge, font;
If that's the same font I am using, try to imagine how it looks on a
120dpi display.
when I do what you
describe, I get a slightly bigger, slightly better-looking Helvetica.
What exact font does that pattern resolve to for you? For me,
xfd -fn '-*-terminal-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*' gives an xfd
window describing
-Bitstream-Terminal-Medium-R-Normal--18-140-100-100-C-110-ISO8859-1 .
Same here.
After
making your change,
(font-truename (face-font (get-face 'default)))
within XEmacs gives
"-Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--25-180-100-100-P-130-ISO8859-1"
Here this returns
"-urw-nimbus sans l-regular-r-condensed--42-300-100-100-p-194-iso8859-1"
$ find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ -name fonts.dir | xargs grep "nimbus sans
l-regular-r-condensed"
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.dir:n019043l.pfb -urw-nimbus sans
l-regular-r-condensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.dir:n019043l.pfb -urw-nimbus sans
l-regular-r-condensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.dir:n019043l.pfb -urw-nimbus sans
l-regular-r-condensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
n019043l.pfb is part of the gsfonts-x11 package in Debian/sid.
I _suspect_ this is a peculiarity of your local X11 installation, but
give
us more details and we can try to work that out.
$ xdpyinfo
name of display: :0.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: The XFree86 Project, Inc
vendor release number: 40300001
XFree86 version: 4.3.0.1
[...]
This is the version distributed with Debian/sid, so not really a
vanilla XFree86 4.3.0.
--
Ralf