From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bkhl@elektrubadur.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_Lindstr=F6m?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: TT fonts in Emacs Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 18:25:30 +0200 Organization: Upsalafandom Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87oewrae85.fsf@lucien.dreaming> References: <874qzaxnm5.fsf@lucien.dreaming> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065633973 22562 80.91.224.253 (8 Oct 2003 17:26:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 17:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 08 19:26:10 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A7I4g-0007z1-00 for ; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 19:26:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A7Hut-0000ZJ-JT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:16:03 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!news.utfors.se!lucien.dreaming!news Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: md4691354.utfors.se Original-X-Trace: yggdrasil.utfors.se 1065632330 23011 212.105.19.84 (8 Oct 2003 16:58:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@utfors.se Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Oct 2003 16:58:50 GMT X-PGP-Key: http://bkhl.elektrubadur.se/Key.html X-Home-Page: http://bkhl.elektrubadur.se/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qI4jy3gFQITEUBnp9u0nWNE2GN0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117142 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13070 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13070 jasonr (Jason Rumney) @ f2s.com writes: > bkhl@elektrubadur.se (Björn Lindström) writes: > >> I'm having some trouble understanding how I should specify a TT font >> (in this case, Bitstream Vera Mono) for Emacs in my xresources. Can >> anyone spread some light over this? > > The same way as any other scalable font. > > Find out the font's full name using xlsfonts or similar, and fill in > one of the size fields in the XFLD descriptor. > > Eg if xlsfonts returns: > > -bitstream-Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-96-96-m-0-iso8859-1 > > then for a 11pt font in Emacs use: > > -bitstream-Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-medium-r-normal--*-110-96-96-m-*-iso8859-1 Thanks for the advice. However, the Vera fonts does not appear in the xlsfonts listing, or in xfontsel. This is weird, since I can use them in Mozilla. Using the -o parameter to xlsfonts doesn't help, either. -- Björn Lindström http://bkhl.elektrubadur.se/ Download the new *Elektrubadur* demo from http://elektrubadur.se/