Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.82; Font sizes in previews too small on Windows

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2005-12-18) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The following screenshot shows part of circ.tex and the font size in
>> the previews seems to be too small compared to the font used in Emacs:
[...]
> If you select other fonts for the buffer and regenerate, is
> preview-latex always "wrong" in the same manner?  In that case the
> geometry might be off-kilter.

Yes.  That means previews change size with the chosen font size but
compared to the font size they are always a too small.

>> Other peculiarities in the screenshot are the way the heading is
>> highlighted (picture a mouse pointer above it)
>
> I don't think it gets better on any other machine.  On Emacs-21, we
> have used colored transparent frames in the image in order to avoid
> ugly blinking, and this also affects the mouse highlighting.  It has
> other drawbacks, and the cursor flashing problem is no longer there in
> Emacs-22, so we don't do the the frames.  If you think this important,
> you should probably ask on emacs-devel whether it is possible to make
> mouse-highlight on images work similar to cursor on images.

I'll have to dig deeper to see what's actually involved.  The peculiar
thing is that on X there is no (visible) highlighting at all when
hovering with the mouse pointer over images.

>> and the erroneous newline in the tooltip.
>
> I don't think that is the problem: rather the tooltip should contain
> two lines.

Uh, yes.

> I don't know what happened to the second one.  Maybe the
> toolkit is not happy because of \n instead of \r\n or something
> similarly obtuse?

Can this be a toolkit problem.  I thought tooltips are realised by
means of Emacs buffers without window decorations.

-- 
Ralf