From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rainer M Krug Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Probelm starting emacs snapshot - "Font `lucidasanstypewriter-10' is not defined" Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:18 +0200 Message-ID: <4FE2CC5E.6030002@gmail.com> References: <4FE18547.2080704@gmail.com> <4FE19C97.1040300@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340263549 10186 80.91.229.3 (21 Jun 2012 07:25:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:25:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 21 09:25:48 2012 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 1Shblz-0005VB-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53364 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Shbly-0007RG-PK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:25:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44094) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Shblm-0007Qt-8m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:25:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Shblf-0005w8-UE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:25:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:36174) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Shblf-0005uR-KZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:25:27 -0400 Original-Received: by eaan1 with SMTP id n1so74147eaa.0 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:25:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:newsgroups:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=zxkBNDk8nPNANiViu5gIbIiT/m44ohUoZpSszNTMeZA=; b=ZTkU0GGnoLnscj+RyXa25URXE1FhEoFEj9BWSAKsDbxZqalrJ74YE2NEixcmFNxv63 bMu5egVCl6Q4L7XINJN3Lbob9KqVf5sMApGM92T8wbDlvsowW/1fETH2m+CagkNcxDGu TbGBe+u85H+u0P38gP46iZ3hdLW3A/gHh51ES2cm6d0l6tyCvAKbtbXraQO+L4JWWv3d S4SAxqZGa9dveyxOMluiSyaK8dKcZeZUSSDpMLsKBrQo8hhP2EGGgfpCfwtk0lcygCGr 0C8I3pB1mB0T8iq3bCYPC6XZ9zvMXqLZgFP0RysTkm06zoNzPIVdfodyBvDavf2ub+aX gd4Q== Original-Received: by 10.14.99.10 with SMTP id w10mr5925670eef.175.1340263525479; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:25:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?IPv6:2a01:e35:8baa:b070:ed99:54c7:da2a:401c? 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X-Received-From: 209.85.215.169 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:85341 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20/06/12 15:57, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 20.06.2012 um 11:49 schrieb Rainer M Krug: > >> My question is: why does emacs-snapshot need lucida, and emacs 23 not? Or did it just ignore >> the missing font? And: How can I install the font on Ubuntu Precise? > > GNU Emacs never needs a particular font. It can work (display) with whatever it finds on the > system. And if it does not find anything suitable, then it uses empty boxes. It is possible > that the different "releases" were differently packaged and therefore used different init > files, maybe also different X resources. If this is not documented, then you can check the > contents of the packages and answer your questions (I can't, because I don't use Ubuntu at the > moment and I don't want to install it in the near future in a virtual instance.) > > Before you install anything you should remember that you have two services that provide fonts > for X clients: on the X server side you have the old system that used 'xset fp ...' and > xlsfonts/xfontsel/xfd and font names in the XLFD (X11 Logical Font Description) format, and on > the "user side" you have libfontconfig with fc-cache/fc-match/fc-list and configuration files > like (/etc/)fonts.conf or ~/.fonts.conf. > > When your GNU Emacs executable uses libfontconfig you can use libfontconfig names to name the > font(s) you want to use. When your GNU Emacs executable uses libotf you can even use OTF > fonts. > > In any case you have to set up your font services accordingly. I take my Lucida Sans Typewriter > fonts off Java. Off your TeX installation you can use for example Latin Modern Mono, as found > in files named lmmono*.otf. (I use them in the NS/NextSTEP/Cocoa variant of GNU Emacs.) There > is also UM Typewriter, UMTypewriter-*.otf. OK - as I can start it with the -Q option, I will gothrough my .emacs file and see which part actually causes the problem. Cheers, Rainer > > -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen > > Pete > > There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. – John > von Neumann > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/izF4ACgkQoYgNqgF2egoAIQCfTicJxyjMboNUxJ/iwin6BeFt /f0An3wgufSupvFElu9uWyGlFKIK7i6x =6Psk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----