From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: recent emacs font problems? Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:03:53 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055426778 18392 80.91.224.249 (12 Jun 2003 14:06:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:06:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 12 16:06:13 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19QSiT-0004m2-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:06:13 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19QT3y-0003h1-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:28:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19QShQ-00049p-JY for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19QSgI-0003bi-3i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:03:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19QSgG-0003a5-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:03:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19QSgF-0003Za-Gc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19QSgD-0003RH-85; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:03:53 -0400 Original-To: "Jan D." In-reply-to: (jan.h.d@swipnet.se) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15057 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15057 Thank you. However, I still can't understand how things are supposed to work. In my .Xdefaults I set default font to courier-14. Now if I do (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "fixed"), shall new frames get courier-14 or fixed-14? The set-face-attribute call should certainly override the X resource. So the family must be "fixed". Currently they get fixed-14 but with the font metrics of courier-14, I am not completely sure what that means. Do you mean that Emacs chooses the font fixed-14 but uses some data taken from the wrong font? That is clearly a bug. Whichever font is chosen, Emacs should use it consistently. If I select courier 12 from the shift-down-1 menu, shall I get courier-12 or fixed-12? Currently I get fixed-12 (with courier-12 font metrics). This should select courier 12, the font that you chose.