Re: font size, linux (redhat)

Steinar Bang <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.psgml.user
Organization Probably a good idea
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> Dave Pawson <[email protected]> writes:

> (set-default-font
> "-courier-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-1")

> 90 instead of 110, 14 - 140 instead of Peter's 18-180.

> Sigh. I don't like magic incantations.  Anyone know how to translate
> that string?

Not really.  But google found me this:
	http://www.meretrx.com/e93/docs/xlfd.html

According to the above document, the 90 or 110 value is average
width.

14 is pixelsize, ie. height in pixels.  140 is pointsize.



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