Re: Formatting problems in RedHat 8.0

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Friday, 18 October '02, Curt Crandall wrote:
> Lars,
>
>   Thank you for your prompt response.  I will give the
> CVS version a try later tonight.  In the meantime, can
> you recommend a particular font/size that would
> minimize this issue if possible?  Right now, I'm just
> using the default and I have not tried adjusting the
> font.

The thing is that the length changes as you zoom in and out, and also as
you change the zoom for fit-to.

If you have problems with the CVS version, you could change the fudge
factor in lib/font.c, line 1500 (font_string_width).

-Lars

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