From: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (re)display problems after font backend merge
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 01:01:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abife285.fsf@escher.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 48373DB6.1030808@harpegolden.net
On Fri, 23 May 2008 22:57:10 +0100 David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> wrote:
> Stephen Berman wrote:
>
>> -Adobe-Adobe Helvetica-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
>>
>> The output includes Adobe Helvetica but not the other two fonts above
>> (though B&H Lucida, B&H LucidaBright, and B&H LucidaTypewriter are
>> listed).
>>
>
> I guess the filenames all ended in .pcf or .pcf.gz ?
Yes.
> If so, they're all
> fonts that ship as bitmaps with X. Yours apparently have the foundry
> names prepended in the family though, which might be some sort of policy
> change that I haven't encountered yet.
[...]
> But - bah. That "helv" (rather than "helvetica") that is in emacs'
> variable-pitch's family by default is IMO unlikely to do anything
> particularly sensible (unlike the "courier" default in fixed-pitch) -
> "helv" is neither the name of a font nor an alias in fontconfig as far
> as I can see, and family matching is not AFAICS substring-based in
> fontconfig.
[...]
> *** So perhaps emacs should default to "helvetica" for variable-pitch
> if it's gonna default to "courier" for fixed-pitch. Then fontconfig
> might have a chance. :-)
I tried both "Helvetica" and "Adobe Helvetica" but didn't notice any
difference from just "helv". However, after adding the x font backend
(as well as xft), the mode-line-inactive and tabbar-default faces did
get realized with Helvetica font (not anti-aliased).
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-24 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-15 18:45 (re)display problems after font backend merge Stephen Berman
2008-05-16 0:57 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-16 10:22 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-17 3:19 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-17 12:30 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-17 14:02 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-17 18:37 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-18 3:30 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-18 18:19 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-22 20:36 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-23 4:16 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-23 12:28 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-23 16:10 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-23 17:03 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-23 17:37 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-23 19:42 ` James Cloos
2008-05-23 20:41 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-23 21:57 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-24 1:16 ` James Cloos
2008-05-24 23:01 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2008-05-27 13:17 ` Stephen Berman
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