From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using emacs with nx
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:02:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iozshyzp.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6632AA62-A99A-4EC2-8FAC-3C0CAFA2DDF0@Web.DE
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> Am 30.07.2013 um 04:28 schrieb Harry Putnam:
>
>> Another way that comes to mind is to run the command:
>>
>> M-x set-default-font <ENTER>
>
> This is a bit out of sorts. The *Completions* buffer only lists a few
> thousand fonts served by the X server (i.e., XLFD format). Not one
> from libfontconfig is among them. IOW, the list contains mostly
> bitmapped fonts. This was OK and helpful last millennium. (OK, I also
> used it early this one, because there were no other means available.)
OK, the S-mouse1 seems better in some ways.
> The GNU Emacs versions for non-X11 windowing systems seem to do a
> better job. At least my two Mac OS X variants (NS and AppKit) list the
> system's fonts – but in XLFD notation. Both have a simpler interface
> via S-mouse-1 which opens the system's standard dialog to choose a
> font. (Which does not have n XLFD name.)
XLFD?
Just curious:
Why is better for fonts not to be in XLFD notation?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-30 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-10 7:34 using emacs with nx Andrew Michael Levin
2013-06-10 11:14 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-13 11:35 ` Andrew Michael Levin
2013-06-13 12:13 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-07-29 13:35 ` Andrew Michael Levin
2013-07-29 15:11 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-07-29 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-30 2:28 ` Harry Putnam
2013-07-30 8:24 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-07-30 15:02 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2013-07-30 15:29 ` Peter Dyballa
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