emacs with truetype fonts

emacs with truetype fonts

[Jan Ulrich Hasecke]

Hi,

I can use gvim with truetype fonts on my debian notebook. Very nice is
LMTypewriter from the tex lmodern fonts. 

Can I use these fonts in emacs too? It looks nicer than courier.

TIA
juh

Re: emacs with truetype fonts

[Juhapekka Tolvanen]

Jan Ulrich Hasecke <janulrich.hasecke@web.de> writes:

> I can use gvim with truetype fonts on my debian notebook. Very nice is
> LMTypewriter from the tex lmodern fonts.

I think those lmodern-fonts you see in your gvim are not True Type
-fonts at all. They are Type 1 -fonts.

> Can I use these fonts in emacs too? It looks nicer than courier.

Just use a program called xfontsel and try to find a good font. Don't
define charset. Then click "Select". Now that font-definition is in
buffer of your mouse. Paste that fontdefinition to your ~/.Xresources
-file with middle-button of your mouse. If your mouse has just two
buttons, you can emulate middle-button by pressing both puttons
simultaneously.

Create also these symbolic links:

ln -s ~/.Xresources ~/.Xdefaults
ln -s ~/.Xresources ~/.xresources

After each update of .Xresources run this command to enable those
settings immediately:

xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources

Then you need to restart your emacs. Here are my emacs-related
X-resources:

----- Clip here -----
! {{{ emacsen

! Somehow these X-resources do not have efect for first window in my GNU Emacs.
emacs.font: -*-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-100-100-m-*-*-*
Emacs.pane.menubar.font: -*-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-100-100-*-*-*-*
Emacs*menubar*Font: -*-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-*-*-*-100-100-100-*-*-*-*
Emacs*popup*Font:  -*-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-*-*-*-100-100-100-*-*-*-*

!Emacs*Background:              MidnightBlue
!Emacs*Foreground:              LightSalmon

Emacs*popup*background: gray60
Emacs*popup*foreground: black

emacs*bitmapIcon: on
Emacs*toolBar: 0

!emacs.geometry: 80x25
!Emacs.geometry: 110x55
!Emacs.geometry: 110x55+0+0
Emacs.geometry: 143x53+0+0

! GNU Emacs 21 (these font-settings don't work)
Emacs.Paned.XlwMenu.font: -*-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-100-100-*-*-*-*
Emacs.Paned.EmacsFrame.font: -*-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-100-100-m-*-*-*
Emacs.Paned.XlwMenu.background: gray60
Emacs.Paned.XlwMenu.foreground: black

Emacs.Paned.EmacsFrame.background: MidnightBlue
Emacs.Paned.EmacsFrame.foreground: LightSalmon

Emacs.pane.menubar.horizontalSpacing:   4 
Emacs.pane.menubar.verticalSpacing:     2
Emacs.pane.menubar.Margin: 0

! XEmacs
Emacs.TopLevelEmacsShell.EmacsManager.XlwMenu.font: -*-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-100-100-*-*-*-*
Emacs.TopLevelEmacsShell.EmacsManager.EmacsFrame.font: -*-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-100-100-m-*-*-*
Emacs.TopLevelEmacsShell.EmacsManager.XlwMenu.foreground: black
Emacs.TopLevelEmacsShell.EmacsManager.XlwMenu.background: gray60

Emacs*Xlw''''''Menu*fontSet: -*-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-100-100-*-*-*-*
Emacs*Xlw''''''Menu*background: gray60
Emacs*Xlw''''''Menu*foreground: black
Emacs*Xlw''''''Menu*shadowThickness: 1
Emacs.TopLevelEmacsShell.EmacsManager.XlwScrollBar.background: gray60

! }}}
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Lines that start with "!" are comments, of course. If setting X-resources
don't work, edit your ~/.emacs and then restart your emacs. Here are my
font-related settings from my ~/.emacs:

----- Clip here -----
;;{{{ Fix for handling of X-resources

;; http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ProblemSettingCertainFaceAttributesFromXResources
;;
;; Loading this patch will make face-attributes inherit, underline,
;; overline and strike-through properly be set up from X11 resources.
;; Values `t', `nil' and facenames must be quoted.
;;
;; code by fledermaus

(defun set-face-attribute-from-resource (face attribute resource class frame)
  "Set FACE's ATTRIBUTE from X resource RESOURCE, class CLASS on FRAME.
  Value is the attribute value specified by the resource, or nil
  if not present.  This function displays a message if the resource
  specifies an invalid attribute."
  (let* ((face-name (face-name face))
         (value (internal-face-x-get-resource (concat face-name resource)
                                              class frame)))
    (when value
      (if (and (string-match "^'" value)
               (or (eq attribute :inherit       )
                   (eq attribute :underline     )
                   (eq attribute :overline      )
                   (eq attribute :strike-through)))
        (progn
          (setq value (intern (substring value 1)))
          (condition-case ()
                          (internal-set-lisp-face-attribute
                            face attribute value frame)
                          (error
                            (message "Face %s, frame %s: attribute %s %S from XRDB"
                                     face-name frame attribute value))))
        (setq value (downcase value))
        (condition-case ()
                        (internal-set-lisp-face-attribute-from-resource
                          face attribute value frame)
                        (error
                          (message "Face %s, frame %s: bad attribute %s %s from X resource"
                                   face-name frame attribute value)))))
    value))

;;}}}

;;{{{ Fonts and colors

(global-font-lock-mode t)
(show-paren-mode t)

;;(setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t
;;        font-lock-maximum-size nil)
;;(setq font-lock-support-mode 'fast-lock-mode ; lazy-lock-mode
;;        fast-lock-cache-directories '("~/.emacs-flc"))

(setq fast-lock-cache-directories '("~/.emacs-flc"))

;; do lazy locking, it's quicker
;;(setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode)
;; more font-locking, variables for `lazy-lock-mode'
;; wait 10 secs before font-locking stuff
;;(setq lazy-lock-defer-time 10
;; don't font lock as I type
;;lazy-lock-defer-on-the-fly t
;; If I'm not doing stuff, start fontifying
;; the rest of the buffer
;;lazy-lock-stealth-time 30)

;; emacs 21 has jit-lock which is better
(setq font-lock-support-mode 'jit-lock-mode)
(setq jit-lock-stealth-time 16
      jit-lock-defer-contextually t
      jit-lock-stealth-nice 0.5)
(setq-default font-lock-multiline t)

;;}}}
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Lines that start with ";" are comments, of course. Before those setting
my ~/.emacs reads file ~/.emacsen-elisp/common.el . It is for those
settings that work under both emacsen, both GNU emacs and XEmacs. Here
are its font-related settings:

----- Clip here -----
;;{{{ Fonts and colors

;; Somehow X-resources do not have effect for first window in my GNU Emacs.

(setq initial-frame-alist
      '(
                (top . 0) (left . 0)
                ;; (width . 80) (height . 72)
                ;; (width . 110) (height . 55
                (width . 143) (height . 53)
                ;; (font . "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*")
                (font . "-*-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-100-100-m-*-*-*")
                (set-face-font 'default "-*-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-100-100-m-*-*-*")
                (set-face-font 'menu "-*-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-100-100-*-*-*-*")
                )
      )

(setq default-frame-alist
      '(
                (top . 0) (left . 0)
                ;;(width . 80) (height . 62)
                ;;(width . 110) (height . 55)
                (width . 143) (height . 53)
                ;; (cursor-color . "white")
                (cursor-type . box)
                ;; (foreground-color . "green")
                ;; (background-color . "black")
                ;;(font . "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*")
                ;;(font . "-*-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-100-100-m-*-*-*")
                (font . "-*-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-100-100-m-*-*-*")
                (set-face-font 'default "-*-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-100-100-m-*-*-*")
                (set-face-font 'menu "-*-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-100-100-*-*-*-*")
                )
      )

;;; Syntax highlight for everywhere

(require 'font-lock)

(turn-on-font-lock)
(setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t)

(require 'ctypes)
(ctypes-auto-parse-mode 1)

(require 'gnus-cite)

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(foreground-color . "LightSalmon"))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(background-color . "MidnightBlue"))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(cursor-color . "Gold"))

(add-to-list 'initial-frame-alist '(foreground-color . "LightSalmon"))
(add-to-list 'initial-frame-alist '(background-color . "MidnightBlue"))
(add-to-list 'initial-frame-alist '(cursor-color . "Gold"))

;;}}}
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Re: emacs with truetype fonts

[Jan Ulrich Hasecke]

Hi Juhpekka!

Wonderful howto! Thank you very much. 

I tried it out with several fonts but they all look less good than in gvim.
Maybe there is no antialias support in my emacs. 

You're right lmodern are Type 1 fonts.

juh

Re: emacs with truetype fonts

[Daniel Pittman]

On 9 Nov 2004, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
> I tried it out with several fonts but they all look less good than in gvim.
> Maybe there is no antialias support in my emacs. 

'gvim', as I recall, uses the GTK text widgets.  These, under the hood,
use xft for anti-aliased text rendering these days, for both TTF and
Type1 fonts.

Emacs, since it uses a display engine of its own, does not support the
same font location technology, and does not support anti-aliased text.

All it needs is for someone to write the code to implement that, though.

    Daniel

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