Mercurial > emacs
changeset 36544:ea96fad2da67
(Window Size X): Document how Emacs sets the units for frame width if
the default font is proportional.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 05 Mar 2001 15:13:46 +0000 |
| parents | 57371dae7dbd |
| children | aaea0580662b |
| files | man/cmdargs.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/cmdargs.texi Mon Mar 05 15:11:21 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/cmdargs.texi Mon Mar 05 15:13:46 2001 +0000 @@ -735,8 +735,9 @@ Emacs uses the same units as @code{xterm} does to interpret the geometry. The @var{width} and @var{height} are measured in characters, so a large font -creates a larger frame than a small font. The @var{xoffset} -and @var{yoffset} are measured in pixels. +creates a larger frame than a small font. (If you specify a proportional +font, Emacs uses its maximum bounds width as the width unit.) The +@var{xoffset} and @var{yoffset} are measured in pixels. Since the mode line and the echo area occupy the last 2 lines of the frame, the height of the initial text window is 2 less than the height