bug#7956: 24.0.50; xft:-B&H-LucidaTypewriter-normal-normal-normal-Sans-10-*-*-*-m-60-iso10646-1 rendered to presumingly 1 pt

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE>]

Am 02.02.2011 um 20:41 schrieb Jan Djärv:

> Hard to say.  What happens for xfd -fn '-B&H-LucidaTypewriter-normal- 
> normal-normal-Sans-10-*-*-*-m-60-iso10646-1' ?

	xfd -fn '-B&H-LucidaTypewriter-normal-normal-normal-Sans-10-*-*-*- 
m-60-iso10646-1'
	Warning: Cannot convert string "-B&H-LucidaTypewriter-normal-normal- 
normal-Sans-10-*-*-*-m-60-iso10646-1" to type FontStruct
	xfd:  no font to display
	Exit 1

When I select the font manually in xfontsel it works as:

	xfd -fn '-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-10-*-*-*-m-60- 
iso10646-1' &
	[2] 18394


> Does
> % emacs -fn sans-10
>
> give better results?

Partially! As long as GNU Emacs is loading the desktop and the session  
saved I can see clearly the text. When this has finished, the fonts  
become invisible. Invoking GNU Emacs with -q or -Q keeps the initial  
image and the correct size of "xft:-bitstream-Bitstream Vera Sans- 
normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1". So there can as well  
be something in my init file. When I invoke

	emacs -q -fn '-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-10-*-*-*- 
m-60-iso10646-1' &

I never see that font normally, only the introductory page with the  
"GNU Emacs" logo and hyper-link to some documentation appears OK in  
Bitstream Vera Sans and Monospace.

>  It seems your X server or Emacs or a combination has problems with  
> old style fonts.

I'd think it has to do with TT fonts (the Lucida Sans Typewriter is  
such one, from Java). Jeremy Huddleston mentions that he is using an  
elder version of FreeType because the recent one shows some bugs in  
Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6. Maybe Mac OS X is buggy...


Later, after sleep, I can try to determine which statement in my init  
file is causing the "disappearance" of the sans font!

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   Pete

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