Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows

[David Kastrup]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> But the display geometries are our only pointer to getting the
>> point/pixel relation coherent for fonts, so when in doubt, we should
>> rather err in the same manner Windows selects its fonts rather than
>> get it correct in opposition to all other applications and in
>> particular the font selection.
>>   
> How about calculating the font size yourself in the same way you
> calculate image size, and specifying that in pixels to be consistent
> with the images you are generating?

It is not the business of an application like AUCTeX to mess with the
font selection of the user.

> That seems to me to be the only way to get consistency, since the
> screen geometry is not used by the OS in to calculate font sizes
> (even on X AFAICT).

We had no problems on X so far IIRC.

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