From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: using emacs with nx Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:29:05 +0200 Message-ID: <19AB2BB8-0AC3-4277-A81D-C64181E578F8@Web.DE> References: <70588E74-25DA-4396-8B38-6483EE5D88F3@web.de> <77681328-1077-406D-8962-43FA6A41BDBB@web.de> <83ppu1xrkw.fsf@gnu.org> <87txjcn5mi.fsf@newsguy.com> <6632AA62-A99A-4EC2-8FAC-3C0CAFA2DDF0@Web.DE> <87iozshyzp.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375198171 17884 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2013 15:29:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:29:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Harry Putnam Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 30 17:29:32 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V4Brg-0002E8-6u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:29:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36171 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4Brf-0004Uz-MY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:29:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4BrO-0004TD-Qm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:29:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4BrH-0007jg-Er for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:29:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:62549) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4BrH-0007jZ-5q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:29:07 -0400 Original-Received: from sumac.fritz.box ([95.223.145.86]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb101) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MC1fA-1UvQQr3IC8-008o05 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:29:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87iozshyzp.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:VXcpHLlOmOBVuuBFMh9O5qZ5LHvX7cp+CR+nu7OkFj79RlVyx6B Orl5tKoNZUY5D6gwL7r75+9qrWdIRHE7UdowrIj/9Rt8zzrHZLJz/MuxFvE6HwzTSA4jrvN Gk05gMHOcYg6wVzfHPKHrqKnOK4o3NQEEO1yGFIa8uTgH4LdAWiwqNraE1rnvlJs6f6ijRD Qj8bNyn742qxAMLF9h0aw== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.4 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92556 Archived-At: Am 30.07.2013 um 17:02 schrieb Harry Putnam: > XLFD? X Logical Font Description Conventions =96 when you have X11 installed = you should be able to locate = xorg-docs-X.Y/specs/XLFD/xlfd.{html,pdf,ps,txt,xml}=85 The X11 font names contain a lot of information in a construct like: = -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1. foundry-font name-weight-slant-width-style-pixel size-point = size-resolution X-resolution Y-spacing-average width-charset = registry-charset encoding >=20 > Just curious: > Why is better for fonts not to be in XLFD notation? They are then supplied by libfontconfig which offers to automatically = find a(nother) font that can deliver missing characters. Libfontconfig = also provides vector fonts (PostScript, TrueType, OpenType) which = together with libotf and m17n-lib allow bidi(rectional) typesetting and = font shaping, necessary for some Asian scripts. -- Greetings Pete If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the = entire catalogue. =96 Sears, Roebuck, and Co., Consumer's Guide, 1897