[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-07-13, 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.
>
> That is funny since I don't do anything and it just works
> (DejaVu is a family I think).
> Indeed my default font is DejaVu Sans Mono.
> The last "u" above gives the output below for C-U C-x =
>
> Did you build emacs with xft support?

No.  I did rebuild emacs with xft support, but I had already manually
done the "customize-face" for "variable-pitch", so I don't know if xft
support would have fixed the problem or not (I imagine it probably
would have, since that's what the lisp code in faces.el seems to
imply).

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