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George Roman schrieb:
> I can't get a font to load in Emacs, yet Emacs sees the font and the
> font works fine with xterm.
> 
> Background: I'm running Xming on Vista and have installed the Dina PCF
> fonts.  I can login to my Linux server and start xfontsel, selecting a
> Dina font.  I can start an xterm and use the Dina font that I selected.
> 
> When I start Emacs (v22.1/CentOS), I see the Dina fonts listed with
> (x-list-fonts "*dina*"), but when I try to use one with
> 
>   (set-face-font 'default
>       "-windows-dina-medium-r-normal-*-16-100-96-96-c-80-microsoft-cp1252")
> 
> or
> 
>   (set-default-font
>     "-windows-dina-medium-r-normal-*-16-100-96-96-c-80-microsoft-cp1252"
>     nil)

I use Dina too. Try instead this:

"-raster-Dina-normal-r-normal-normal-13-97-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1"


regards
Marc