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Re: different fonts and different heights


From: Kiwon Um
Subject: Re: different fonts and different heights
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:55:11 -0700 (PDT)
User-agent: G2/1.0

On 8월1일, 오전8시00분, Byung-Hee HWANG <b...@izb.knu.ac.kr> wrote:
> Kiwon Um <um.ki...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hello. Let's discuss about follows.
>
> > When we use a combination font-setting of over two fonts in emacs, it
> > may be due to the multi-language editing support. Those different
> > fonts have varieties in their size, e.g. many Asian glyphs occupy
> > double width space of an alphabet. (Even though the wide font is not
> > perfectly double wide space of one alphabet, many users want that the
> > occupied size of one wide character such as Asian character to be
> > exactly same with two alphabet characters, namely fixed font setting)
>
> > However, we must consider the line spacing, I mean the height of the
> > fonts. Although the width between different fonts have variation along
> > each other, the height (or line spacing) should keep same, or, at
> > least, user must be able to set the base height, IMO.
>
> > To keep the consistency in the height spacing with various widths,
> > emacs needs to check the largest height value along each specified
> > charset(fontset). Currently, emacs seems to set the base height as the
> > value of the default fontset. Then, if the height value of other user-
> > specified charset's font is larger, it may cause inconsistent result
> > in line spacing. (This is exactly now happening.)
>
> > So, how can users specify different fontsets with different sizes for
> > each, but with consistent height?
> > As you all already know, users can set the line-spacing value to
> > control the space between lines. But this
> > works only for the space between lines, not for the height of a line
> > itself.
>
> > Here is one case with the problem:
> >     (set-face-font 'default (font-spec :family "terminus" :size 12.0))
> >     (set-fontset-font nil 'korean-ksc5601
> >                       (font-spec :family "Guseul" :registry "unicode-
> > bmp" :lang "ko" :size 14.0)))
>
> > Thanks.
>
> Hello Kiwon,
>
> Firstly i can't give you good answer to solve your problem, actually i'm
> newbie at Emacs. Personally i think this is somewhat local issue what
> Korean folks can recognize. There is professional Emacs guy in Korea,
> too. May i introduce the guy to you? Well i think he can solve your
> problem. Please check out
> [http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-ko/hangul.el]. Then contact the
> author. Good job, Kiwon!  
>
> Sincerely,
>
> --
> "Mr. Woltz suggested you bring an overnight bag and he'll get you to the
> airport in the morning."
> "I'll do that."
>                 -- The secretary and Tom Hagen, "Chapter 1", page 58

Thanks for your reply. I posted this content to KLDP too. Thanks. :)


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