Re: Re: font size, linux (redhat)

Dave Pawson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.psgml.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 07:39 09/05/2003 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote:
> >>>>> 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.

I guess 140 pointsize is around 14 points.... or maybe not.
Thanks Steiner.

regards DaveP




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