From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: john Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Question on fonts Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:09:28 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="72834"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 21 19:10:20 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1itxym-000It8-HT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:10:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59186 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1itxyl-00065O-DH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:10:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52386) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1itxyE-0005eK-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:09:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1itxy8-0007gs-Ne for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:09:46 -0500 Original-Received: from codemist.co.uk ([217.155.197.248]:51476) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1itxy8-0007gM-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:09:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [172.16.4.42] (helo=snout.codemist.co.uk) by codemist.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1itxy6-00084p-C8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:09:38 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: No reverse lookup X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 217.155.197.248 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:244472 Archived-At: I am sure this is a naive question but I am getting more confused after each message.... I am not a visual person, and know nothing about fonts, except the font I get with current master is thin and spidery and so hard to read. If I run emacs 25.3 (from my GNU/Linux distro) I get a font that is clearer and a little heavier. What I would like is to have that 25.3 font on the current system. I saw messages about .Xresources but I do not have such a file anywhere. There are two files /etc/X11/Xresources and /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources which I suspect are the same but there is nothing in them relating to which font is used. As far as I can tell the current emacs is built with cairo, Freetype, and HarfBuzz but I have no idea what that means. ==John ffitch