From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCnster?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problems with efont Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:13:41 +0100 Message-ID: <20100104221341.GA9719@gaston.couberia.bzh> References: <20100101183320.GA27757@gaston.couberia.bzh> <619C2E23-EDA7-4A7D-9C4D-9A4DA7318F90@Web.DE> <20100102172226.GA19399@gaston.couberia.bzh> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262667168 25499 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2010 04:52:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 04:52:48 +0000 (UTC) To: Peter Dyballa , Emacs Users Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 05:52:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from terminus-est.gnu.org ([66.92.78.210] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NS1PK-0004lK-VW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:52:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51792 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NS1PL-0003Pq-CV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:52:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NS12V-0007CY-8y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:29:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NS12Q-000773-9Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:29:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52780 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NS0KY-0006yL-Am for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:43:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:5374) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NRzc5-0007ts-MU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:57:41 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp21.orange.fr ([80.12.242.47]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NRvBS-0001LG-FZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:13:54 -0500 Original-Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf2107.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 3B6631C00772; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:13:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf2107.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 2BF5F1C0079C; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:13:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from gaston.couberia.bzh (ARennes-551-1-17-221.w92-135.abo.wanadoo.fr [92.135.96.221]) by mwinf2107.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id D13531C00772; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:13:42 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20100104221342857.D13531C00772@mwinf2107.orange.fr Original-Received: by gaston.couberia.bzh (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4A98230B12; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:13:42 +0100 (CET) Mail-Followup-To: Peter Dyballa , Emacs Users Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71053 Archived-At: On Sun, Jan 03 2010, Peter Dyballa wrote: > >> The result is here: http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/emacs/screenshot-4.jpg >> It seems pale and pixelized. Is this normal? What do you think? > > To me only "(" and ")" look pixelised. This can be due to poor performance > of the rendering engine in your X server. Hello Peter, Indeed, only the "(" and ")" look pixelised, but do you see also the thin lines of the "m" compared to the other letters? >> I don't know, if this font comes from Java. I get the fontnames from >> "xlsfonts". > > Check which shared libraries your version of GNU Emacs uses! If > libfontconfig is among them then it will use fontconfig and you have its > utilities fc-list or fc-match. Some possible commands (in case you're new > to this): > > fc-list :lang=el,ar,he | sort > fc-list : file family lang > fc-list : file lang spacing | grep spac | egrep 'lang=.*th' Thank you for this hint! Now I've spent some more time on my font problem with the following results: - There weren't any Lucida fonts in my java installation, because my java package came from OpenJDK. After installing the java package from Sun, I found the LucidaTypewriter*.ttf files and fc-list shows them. - Emacs is linked to fontconfig. - With "emacs -fn 'Lucida Sans Typewriter'" I get a nice font, but too small. - I've discovered Menu-bar -> Options -> Set Default Font ... (why only now and not earlier...???), where I could set the right size (18) and save it to .gnu-emacs-custom Do you know, how to set the size with command-line option or X-resources? - For now, I'm quite satisfied with Lucida, but when I have some more time, I'll look for a font with another height/width ratio (less height) to get more lines on my screen... (with efont I got 5 more lines) Thanks again for your answers! Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/