From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Font issues with recent emacs Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:49:10 +0200 Message-ID: <83bnzlejkp.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389250289 10027 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2014 06:51:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 06:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Vin Shelton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 07:51:32 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W19Qt-0004di-OQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:49:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50331 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W19Qt-00016Q-EX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 01:49:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48559) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W19Ql-00016I-Dg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 01:49:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W19Qf-0001oO-NL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 01:49:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:57270) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W19Qd-0001mi-9W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 01:49:21 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZ400300G9BID00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:49:17 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZ400366GA2G940@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:49:14 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167862 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 22:13:47 -0500 > From: Vin Shelton > > 1. xlsfonts shows the font exists: > > xlsfonts -fn "-*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1" > -misc-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-m-0-iso8859-1 > > 2. Then I start the emacs using that font as the default: > emacs -Q -fn "-misc-dejavu sans > mono-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-m-0-iso8859-1" > > 3. emacs starts with the modeline as displayed in the attached > modeline.png. Notice that the buffer name '*scratch* ' is spelled out > in ascii blocks. The buffer name uses the bold variant of the font. If the font you specified doesn't have a bold variant, Emacs will not be able to display it. > Similarly, if I invoke emacs and evaluate the following forms in the > *scratch* buffer: > > emacs -Q > (set-face-font 'default "-*-dejavu sans > mono-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1") > (set-face-font 'mode-line "-microsoft-comic sans > ms-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1") > > The default font changes correctly and the modeline displays > correctly, but if I enter info: > C-h i > > Then the top of the *info* (dir) buffer looks like the attached > info.png. Note the same ascii block characters. Again, because that part of the display needs the italics variant of the font. Why do you insist on forcing on Emacs a specific fully qualified font definition?