On Sun, 18 May 2008 20:19:52 +0200 Stephen Berman wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2008 04:30:54 +0100 David De La Harpe Golden wrote: > >> Stephen Berman wrote: [...] >>> This image shows split windows, with the Gnus Summary buffer on top and >>> the Article buffer below. The mode line of the Summary buffer has my >>> customized mode-line face (Helvetica font as in variable-pitch face, >>> plus over- and underlining). The mode line of the Article buffer has >>> mode-line-inactive face, which inherits from mode-line but overrides the >>> weight attribute, making it light. >> >> One of the modelines sure doesn't *look* like helvetica ? > > In fact, it is to all appearances the same font as is used in the splash > screen, and there I can use C-u C-x =, which shows this (on the first > character after the image in the splash screen): > > character: T (84, #o124, #x54) > preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV)) > code point: 0x54 > syntax: w which means: word > category: a:ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0]) > l:Latin r:Japanese roman > buffer code: #x54 > file code: not encodable by coding system utf-8-unix > display: by this font (glyph code) > -monotype-Andy MT-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-0-iso8859-1 (#x37) > > Character code properties are not shown: customize what to show > > There are text properties here: > auto-composed t > face (variable-pitch (:foreground "red")) > help-echo [Show] > > The face variable-pitch has only the font attribute set, to "helv". I > don't know why "monotype-Andy MT" shows up. I mentioned in my previous > post that changing certain attributes of variable-pitch face changes its > appearance drastically. In fact, it changes the font family. For > example, changing the width attribute to "narrow" results, according to > C-u C-x =, in a font family of "monotype-Impact". Here is a screen shot of my current mode line and Gnus Summary buffer, in GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2008-05-22 on escher, after Handa-san's latest changes: