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From: "George Roman" <glroman@gmail.com>
To: <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Cannot load font?
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:40:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <96DA94E4FA5341BC9E9DC2676C8690EA@franc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B879812B-7542-40C2-A20E-7713F33460EF@Web.DE>

On Sunday, November 16, 2008 6:04 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> > What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Choosing the wrong font? To see a list of all the fonts GNU Emacs sees,
> you can just try to create this list of completions:
> 
> 	M-x set-frame-font RET TAB TAB
> 
> and save the buffer (if you try file name completion to save it you
> might substitute its contents with possible file name completions).  Now
> can choose from the list an existing font that the X server provides.

OK, did that and I can see the Dina fonts in the output.  When I select
any one of the Dina entries, however, Emacs winds up using a different
font.

Emacs is silently ignoring the Dina fonts and picking something else
instead.  Why?





  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-16 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-16  4:57 Cannot load font? George Roman
2008-11-16 11:04 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-11-16 20:40   ` George Roman [this message]
2008-11-17 12:06     ` Peter Dyballa
2008-11-24  5:08       ` George Roman
2008-11-24  9:37         ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1084.1227504373.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-24 22:26         ` Tim X
     [not found] <mailman.503.1226823175.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-16 17:02 ` Marc Tfardy

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