Re: latest auctex CVS fails to load under xemacs 21.5.19

Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:

> What prv-xemacs.el basically does is this:
>
> (round (/ (* (/ 720.0 25.4)
> 	     (face-height 'default)
> 	     (device-mm-height))
> 	  (device-pixel-height)))
>
> I don't know what the resulting value is supposed to be.  Points?

It simulates the :height attribute of Emacs which is described as

`:height'
     Either the font height, an integer in units of 1/10 point, [...]

> Anyway, it works with `face-height' which looks as wrong as the
> original definition we had in font-latex.

No idea about that.  This is pretty much what worked out for
preview-latex.  Whether this is because it is right or because it is
completely idiotic but happens to be in the right scale by chance in
the few cases that have been tested, I don't know anymore...

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