From: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs chooses wrong bold font
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 01:01:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wxze27u.fsf@escher.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87tzgp59x7.fsf@escher.local.home
On Fri, 23 May 2008 17:15:16 +0200 Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:41:32 +0900 Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> wrote:
>
>> In article <uubq30tx6h.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Something in the latest round of font changes has messed up my bold
>>> fonts again.
>>
>> I installed a fix.
>
> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of
> 2008-05-23 on escher, which contains your fix, variable-pitch face with
> bold weight is not realized as family Helvetica, at least in many cases
> (but see the bottom of this post). For example, info-menu-header, which
> has the latter attributes, is realized as -Adobe-Adobe
> Courier-bold-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1, and info-title-1,
> which inherits these attributes, is realized as -unknown-DejaVu
> Serif-bold-normal-normal-*-21-*-*-*-*-0-iso8859-1. I see this both when
> I start Emacs with -fn "Dejavu Sans Mono-10" and also with -fn "Adobe
> Helvetica-10".
This was evidently due to just using the xft backend; after adding the x
backend, the bold faces that inherit variable-pitch face are also
realized by Helvetica font.
Steve Berman
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-24 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-20 22:42 Emacs chooses wrong bold font Glenn Morris
2008-05-22 2:41 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-22 3:00 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-22 3:49 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-22 18:53 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-23 0:37 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-23 9:08 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-23 15:15 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-24 23:01 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
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