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:
> If that's the same font I am using, try to imagine how it looks on a
> 120dpi display.
:-) 112 locally.
Hm, that's not much difference. And you consider the font to be huge?
Either you have a magnifying glass in front of your display or eagle
eyes. (c:
> >
"-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"
[...]
Okay, if you move the 100dpi directory befor the Type1 directory in
either
the font path of your X server or of your font server, as appropriate, you
should get a much better looking font. (You may need to install some package
to make it available.) There’s nothing wrong with the URW font, it’s just
that the XFree86 Type1 font renderer is unfinished, and as such the bitmap
(.pcf) fonts are much better when they’re available.
There is no font server running here.
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.
Here is what (font-truename ...) returned:
"-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--42-300-100-100-p-223-iso8859-1"
This is probably aliased to the URW font but I don't know which font
package to install in order to get the real Adobe Helvetica; at least
xfonts-100dpi-transcoded and xfonts-75dpi-transcoded did not do the
trick.
Strangely, I get
"-urw-nimbus sans l-medium-r-condensed--19-180-75-75-p-85-iso8859-1"
when I repeat your steps but with nimbus sans l instead of helvetica; if you
are using a font server, there’s a default DPI setting there that may
explain our differences.
Hm, I have a DisplaySize statement in my XF86Config-4 file, maybe this
has some influence.
Anyway, the reason I am asking is that AUCTeX uses a proportional font
for displaying section headings. Now if other people have a similar
setup like me, the section headings will come out in the totally wrong
size. That means playing around with the X server configuration is
not really a solution. It would be better if XEmacs could
display/choose the font in the right size.
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.
--
Ralf