Re: [Bug: 21.4.17] Proportional font too large
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; 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 . 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"
I _suspect_ this is a peculiarity of your local X11 installation, but give
us more details and we can try to work that out.
BTW, customizing the default face in XEmacs 21.5 like described
above
has no effect at all.
There’s been massive breakage in X11 server-side fonts in 21.5 for ages :-(
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