Re: Emacs chooses wrong bold font

[Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>]

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