From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George Roman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Cannot load font? Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:40:12 -0500 Message-ID: <96DA94E4FA5341BC9E9DC2676C8690EA@franc> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226874927 21284 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2008 22:35:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:35:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 16 23:36:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L1qEF-00011U-GP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:36:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37602 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L1qD7-00059p-6q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:35:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L1oPN-0005GU-Lg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:39:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L1oPL-0005GI-J5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:39:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52248 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L1oPL-0005GF-EM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:39:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qy0-f17.google.com ([209.85.221.17]:35159) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1oPL-00023S-QI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:39:47 -0500 Original-Received: by qyk10 with SMTP id 10so319941qyk.18 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:39:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:references :in-reply-to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:x-mimeole:thread-index; bh=yS+1ue1aDNk1TZqPMDAlPVEVUe+/v1sulQD+WbabSbI=; b=girOQ8e6FNEDnYhwktITG63nwpAh/+6G9sMu5jehkSb85VcRP+38tgEfDJGR2WeJQR nlIqEn2QSYxAwhTLOkJBffpKtMOclG/F9gpDAUpFPLkC7FBop0+m9W0yDeufeCWU4BjW evju+f7PZvfveu465UjEi8qB+CVk7l4cVlu4k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:references:in-reply-to:subject:date:message-id :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer :x-mimeole:thread-index; b=ADeQ9rSQo6TA2wOzxFcdgfr5FpVTVY7azOfqfqabffikFMn3H+ponHDwhmcV6Hg7Fn 2xnRzP3Zo0FRoIRrHCrH1MkiA9Q5DAXcfECMAQYLexr+7XOr1xHlNPqQ/iC9iJDICnHA 8pquBSCW5Jn4tmZSt48dGgEHKZteUrbN8UfU8= Original-Received: by 10.214.78.7 with SMTP id a7mr2072214qab.118.1226867984369; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:39:44 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from franc (static-71-166-173-49.washdc.east.verizon.net [71.166.173.49]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 9sm4064306yws.5.2008.11.16.12.39.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:39:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6001.18049 Thread-Index: AclH2x0y+N3qM93YTXm8KQD/TJGo0QAS4cPA X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:33:53 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59847 Archived-At: 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?