From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:33:28 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87wsl1yoh3.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: <871w39mcx5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212871115 20110 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2008 20:38:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 20:38:35 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 07 22:39:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K55Bz-0007SQ-OA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:39:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K55BC-0003BA-IA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:38:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K55B7-00038l-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:38:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K55B7-00037M-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:38:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51601 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K55B6-00037D-Sm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38794 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K55B6-0002uS-GG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K55B3-0001Cl-O7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:38:17 +0000 Original-Received: from e178028044.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.28.44]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:38:17 +0000 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178028044.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:38:17 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178028044.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YEF2ew45O2AgpYedgYzEoVpqXjE= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:98623 Archived-At: On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:56:34 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > Yes, I see that here too. The problem appears to be that "courier" and > "helvetica" are proprietary/trademarked fonts and/or font names (I > don't know exactly, just guessing), so most GNU/Linux distributions > don't come with them. > Instead, they have things like "arial" and "courier new". These are the M$ fonts (M$ once released them under a free beer license. A lot of GNU/Linux distributions ship these old versions). David