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Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On 2010-07-13, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>>>> 2. The name you give "Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1" |
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>>>> looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like |
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>>>> "-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal...". You don't need to have DejaVu, |
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>>>> but I would advise getting either DejaVu or bitstream vera. |
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>>> OK, I've figured out that I do have both dejavu and bitstream vera |
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>>> fonts installed (but they weren't on the font path). Now "DejaVu |
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>>> Sans" does work. The problem is that emacs wants a font with a family |
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>>> name of "Sans Serif", and none of the installed fonts provide a family |
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>>> with that name. |
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>> That is funny since I don't do anything and it just works |
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>> (DejaVu is a family I think). |
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>> Indeed my default font is DejaVu Sans Mono. |
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>> The last "u" above gives the output below for C-U C-x = |
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>> Did you build emacs with xft support? |
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> No. I did rebuild emacs with xft support, but I had already manually |
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> done the "customize-face" for "variable-pitch", so I don't know if xft |
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> support would have fixed the problem or not (I imagine it probably |
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> would have, since that's what the lisp code in faces.el seems to |
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> imply). |
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Good. Life will be better now that you have xft support. :-) |
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allan |
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