[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-07-12, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:

> 2.  The name you give "Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1"
>     looks to be just the suffix  did you mean something like
>     "-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal...".  You don't need to have DejaVu,
>     but I would advise getting either DejaVu or bitstream vera.

OK, I've figured out that I do have both dejavu and bitstream vera
fonts installed (but they weren't on the font path).  Now "DejaVu
Sans" does work.  The problem is that emacs wants a font with a family
name of "Sans Serif", and none of the installed fonts provide a family
with that name.

I changed "Sans Serif" to "DejaVu Sans" in /usr/share/emacs/23.1/lisp/faces.el,
but emacs is till asking for a font with a family name of "Sans Serif".

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