[Orgmode] Re: huge font in column view

[Sébastien Vauban]

Carsten,

Carsten Dominik wrote:
> On May 10, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
>> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>> On May 7, 2010, at 8:20 PM, Eraldo Helal wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I press 'C-c C-x C-c' on a headline in org-mode, I get into column
>>>> view as expected, however the font is huuuge! I remember seeing the same
>>>> sized font when starting emacs without my config file. I have set the
>>>> font size for this very reason... but column mode seems to ignore it
>>>>
>>>> According to what I read, column view gets the font size from the
>>>> 'default font'. Until now I thought I had changed the default font with
>>>> '(set-face- attribute 'default nil :height 80)'. How else can I set the
>>>> default font size? Or is the problem elsewhere?
>>>
>>> what is the spec of the face org-column in your setup? Does it make a
>>> difference to specify the size for org-column explicitly?
>>
>> As I said, I have the same problems.
>>
>> Though, I tried setting the size explicitly:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (org-column ((t (:background "gold" :height 80 :family "Consolas"))))
>> (org-agenda-column-dateline ((t (:background "deep sky blue" :height 80
>> :family "Consolas"))))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> but it does not help.
>
> What do you get if you do M-x describe-face on the following faces:
>
> default

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Face: default (sample) (customize this face)

Documentation:
Basic default face.

        Family: Consolas
       Foundry: microsoft
         Width: normal
        Height: 79
        Weight: normal
         Slant: normal
    Foreground: black
    Background: white
     Underline: nil
      Overline: nil
Strike-through: nil
           Box: nil
       Inverse: nil
       Stipple: nil
          Font: #<font-object 
-microsoft-Consolas-normal-normal-normal-*-11-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1>
       Fontset: 
-microsoft-Consolas-normal-normal-normal-*-11-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-auto1
       Inherit: nil
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


> org-level-1

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Face: org-level-1 (sample) (customize this face)

Documentation:
Face used for level 1 headlines.

Defined in `org-faces.el'.

        Family: Arial
       Foundry: unspecified
         Width: unspecified
        Height: 1.8
        Weight: bold
         Slant: unspecified
    Foreground: cornflower blue
    Background: unspecified
     Underline: unspecified
      Overline: unspecified
Strike-through: unspecified
           Box: unspecified
       Inverse: unspecified
       Stipple: unspecified
          Font: unspecified
       Fontset: unspecified
       Inherit: unspecified

[back]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


> org-level-2

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Face: org-level-2 (sample) (customize this face)

Documentation:
Face used for level 2 headlines.

Defined in `org-faces.el'.

        Family: Arial
       Foundry: unspecified
         Width: unspecified
        Height: 1.6
        Weight: bold
         Slant: unspecified
    Foreground: LimeGreen
    Background: unspecified
     Underline: unspecified
      Overline: unspecified
Strike-through: unspecified
           Box: unspecified
       Inverse: unspecified
       Stipple: unspecified
          Font: unspecified
       Fontset: unspecified
       Inherit: unspecified

[back]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


> org-column

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Face: org-column (sample) (customize this face)

Documentation:
Face for column display of entry properties.
This is actually only part of the face definition for the text in column view.
The following faces apply, with this priority.

1. The color of the reference face.  This is normally the level fact that
   is used in the outline.  In agenda-mode, it will be the face of the
   first character in the line.  The color is explicitly retained to
   make sure that the column line still looks a bit like the structure
   line it is masking.

2. The `org-column' face.

3. The remaining properties of the reference face.

Since column view works by putting overlays with a display property
over individual characters in the buffer, the face of the underlining
character (this might for example be the a TODO keyword) might still
shine through in some properties.  So when your column view looks
funny, with "random" colors, weight, strike-through, try to explicitly
set the properties in the `org-column' face.  For example, set
:underline to nil, or the :slant to `normal'.

Under XEmacs, the rules are simpler, because the XEmacs version of
column view defines special faces for each outline level.  See the file
`org-colview-xemacs.el' for details.

Defined in `org-faces.el'.

        Family: DejaVu Sans Mono
       Foundry: unspecified
         Width: unspecified
        Height: 122
        Weight: unspecified
         Slant: unspecified
    Foreground: unspecified
    Background: gold
     Underline: unspecified
      Overline: unspecified
Strike-through: unspecified
           Box: unspecified
       Inverse: unspecified
       Stipple: unspecified
          Font: unspecified
       Fontset: unspecified
       Inherit: unspecified

[back]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and for `org-agenda-column-dateline':

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Face: org-agenda-column-dateline (sample) (customize this face)

Documentation:
Face used in agenda column view for datelines with summaries.

Defined in `org-faces.el'.

        Family: Consolas
       Foundry: unspecified
         Width: unspecified
        Height: 80
        Weight: unspecified
         Slant: unspecified
    Foreground: unspecified
    Background: deep sky blue
     Underline: unspecified
      Overline: unspecified
Strike-through: unspecified
           Box: unspecified
       Inverse: unspecified
       Stipple: unspecified
          Font: unspecified
       Fontset: unspecified
       Inherit: unspecified

[back]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


In summary, the problem is -- from my point of view -- that the face
specification (in my color-theme) is not honored:

- org-column is NOT Consolas
- org-column is NOT 80 in height (8pt, if I correctly get that the unit is
  1/10 of point)


> Are you talking about column view in the agenda or in an org file?

Both...

Header line `ITEM | TODO | PRI | TAGS' is much narrower than the "normal"
rows.

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sébastien Vauban