[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-07-13, R?bert ?er?ansk? <hslists2@××××××.sk> wrote:

> You can.  I'm not sure why is that but it seems that your emacs is not
> able to find variable pitch font - "About emacs" screen and tooltips
> are using such font; normal edit buffers uses a fixed width font.  To
> be more precise, they are using 'variable-pitch' face so you have to
> set font for that face.  You can do that with 'M-x customize-face
> <RET> variable-pitch <RET>'.  This displays a buffer where you can set
> the font.

That's the trick: changing the family from "Sans Serif" to "DejaVu
Sans", save the settings, restart emacs, and now the "about" text is
rendered.  That particular font is rather ugly and blurry, but at
least it's rendering.

> Note that 'customize-face' command offers you the face that is used to
> display a character on which the cursor is.  So if you place the
> cursor on one of the empty boxes then 'M-x customize-face <RET>' should
> automatically offer you the 'variable-pitch' face.

Yup.

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