Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] mlterm 3.3.1 released

[Araki K. <ara...@us...>]

 Hi,

From: Andi Cristian Serbanescu <ski...@ya...>
Subject: Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] mlterm 3.3.1 released
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 10:01:47 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <138...@we...>

> Some time ago I’ve also noticed something strange about the width of the
> character cell when using Xft rendering (although I refrained from
> mentioning it since it wasn’t such a big deal), namely that it’s set too
> narrow by default.
> 
> I normally use DejaVu Sans Mono for Xft, and I have to adjust the width
> manually, e.g. for size 12 px I have to set PERCENT to about 113 in
> order to get the width I should expect, and for 13 px it should be set
> to 125. This happened with all the fonts I’ve tried, although they were
> not that many. Is there any way to make mlterm use a more adequate
> character width?

 https://bitbucket.org/arakiken/mlterm/commits/a557cbe93febdcc148798630b130ffd38bad0c3a
makes mlterm use the default character width of the loaded font.

> Also, what would you think of using point size instead of pixel size in
> the font specifications? Most stuff right now employs the latter more
> readily.

 Enabling point size has been already implemented.
 (All you have to do is call x_font_use_point_size_for_fc(1)
  https://bitbucket.org/arakiken/mlterm/src/tip/xwindow/xlib/x_font.c#cl-1258
  and x_font_set_dpi_for_fc(dpi)
  https://bitbucket.org/arakiken/mlterm/src/tip/xwindow/xlib/x_font.c#cl-1266)
 But it is enabled only when mlterm works as libvte compatible library
because gnome-terminal etc requires it.

 I hesitate to change the current default behavior, but I'll think of this
after 3.3.2 release.

 Regards,
--- 
Araki Ken
ara...@us...