Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

[Allan Gottlieb]

Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> writes:

> 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.

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?

allan

        character: u (117, #o165, #x75)
preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
       code point: 0x75
           syntax: w 	which means: word
         category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman
      buffer code: #x75
        file code: #x75 (encoded by coding system utf-8-emacs)
          display: by this font (glyph code)
    xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-bold-normal-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x58)

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: LATIN SMALL LETTER U
  general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)

There is an overlay here:
 From 1234 to 1240
  evaporate            t
  face                 flyspell-duplicate
  flyspell-overlay     t
  help-echo            "mouse-2: correct word at point"
  keymap               [Show]
  mouse-face           highlight


There are text properties here:
  fontified            t