From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Doctor Who" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Getting emacs23 to use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8 font Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:17:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4b75340e0807191417odbad116h1a9c7774060533a0@mail.gmail.com> References: <4b75340e0807180959n6f27757bg4c6049d6c56f196e@mail.gmail.com> <87vdz1lnz7.fsf@edna.homeunix.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216536252 26563 80.91.229.12 (20 Jul 2008 06:44:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:44:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Joel J. 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Adamson wrote: > "Doctor Who" writes: > >> I'm trying to get emacs23 to use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8 as the >> font. When I try to invoke emacs like this: >> >> emacs --font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8" >> >> I get the error: >> >> Font `Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8' is not defined > > One way to do it: > ,----~/.Xdefaults > | > | !Emacs > | Emacs*font: -xos4-terminus-medium-*-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 > | Emacs*cursorColor: magenta > | Emacs*foreground: White > | Emacs*background: Black > | Emacs*borderwidth: 0 > | Emacs*bitmapIcon: on > | ! Lucid resources: > | > Emacs.pane.menubar.font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 > | Emacs*menu*fontSet: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 > | Emacs.dialog*.font: > -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 > | Emacs.dialog*.foreground: Black > | Emacs.dialog*.background: Gray > | Emacs.pane.menubar.foreground: Black > | Emacs.pane.menubar.background: Gray > `---- > > $ xrdb ~/.Xdefaults > > and open Emacs anew. > > Use xfontsel to find the name of the font that you want (where I have > terminus above). > > Another way is to customize the default face and put in the name of the > font under "Family." > > Joel Thanks. A couple of questions: 1) If I use the example .Xdefaults like you listed above, are the pipe symbols (|} included at the beginning of several lines to be included as well? 2) Apparently I'm not familiar with the xfonsel command enough to get the desired output I want. I'm trying to use Bitstream Vera Sans-8 as the default font for the emacs editor window. Running 'xfontsel -pattern Bitstream' does not give any results (that I can see). Thanks!