Invalid font name

Invalid font name

[Joon Ro]

Hi,

I am using GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4). I
have custom font Inconsolata-g in my ~/.fonts folder, and I have set it as
the Monospace font in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf.

It works well except Emacs is giving me error: Invalid font name,
-unknown-Inconsolata-g-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 at
launch.

If I change monospace font (to a DejaVu Sans Mono, for example), then Emacs
launch without problem, but when I do M-x set-default-font, and select
-unknown-Inconsolata-g-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1, I
also get Invalid font name:
"-unknown-Inconsolata-g-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1",
even though I inputted it through auto-completion.

Best,

Joon

Re: Invalid font name

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.06.2013 um 16:33 schrieb Joon Ro:

> I
> have custom font Inconsolata-g in my ~/.fonts folder, and I have set it as
> the Monospace font in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf.
> 
> It works well except Emacs is giving me error: Invalid font name,
> -unknown-Inconsolata-g-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 at
> launch.

You are mixing up font related things! The fonts.conf file is related to libfontconfig (see for example fontconfig-user.pdf or fontconfig-user.html). The font name you pass is according to the XLFD – pretty old, last millennium, needs to set up differently (with xset).

Give GNU Emacs the fontconfig font name:

	emacs -fn Inconsolata-g-15

And maybe it fails again, because the "-" character is used as a separator…

--
Greetings

  Pete

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				– Mark Twain

Re: Invalid font name

[Joon Ro]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>wrote:

> You are mixing up font related things! The fonts.conf file is related to
> libfontconfig (see for example fontconfig-user.pdf or
> fontconfig-user.html). The font name you pass is according to the XLFD –
> pretty old, last millennium, needs to set up differently (with xset).
>
>
Thanks for the reply. But I am not mixing up the settings - what I meant
was that in my system, Inconsolata-g is set as default Monospace font, and
when I run Emacs it raises the error. I had the following font settings in
.emacs file, ::

   (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "Monospace 10")

Of course I have tried

   (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "Inconsolata-g-10")

as well, but emacs raised the same error.


> Give GNU Emacs the fontconfig font name:
>
>         emacs -fn Inconsolata-g-15
>
>
Actually this did work! Thanks. How do I put this option to .emacs?

Best,
Joon

Re: Invalid font name

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.06.2013 um 22:57 schrieb Joon Ro:

> How do I put this option to .emacs?

Recently I recommended this:

	(setq initial-frame-alist '(
	  (mouse-color		 . "midnightblue")
	  (foreground-color	 . "grey20")
	  (background-color	 . "alice blue")
	  (internal-border-width . 2)
	  (line-spacing		 . 1)
	  (active-alpha		 . 0.875)
	  (inactive-alpha	 . 0.75)
	  (font . "Courier-9")
	  (top . 25) (left . 650) (width . 91) (height . 50)))

	(setq default-frame-alist '(
	  (border-color		 . "#4e3831")
	  (foreground-color	 . "grey10")
	  (background-color	 . "ghost white")
	  (vertical-scroll-bars	 . left)
	  (cursor-color		 . "purple")
	  (cursor-type		 . box)
	  (active-alpha		 . 0.75)
	  (inactive-alpha	 . 0.875)
	  (font . "Courier New-9")
	  (top . 50) (left . 150) (width . 89) (height . 56)))

The important lines are those with font…

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Greetings

  Pete

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Re: Invalid font name

[Joon Ro]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:

>
>
> Recently I recommended this:
>
>         (setq initial-frame-alist '(
>           (mouse-color           . "midnightblue")
>           (foreground-color      . "grey20")
>           (background-color      . "alice blue")
>           (internal-border-width . 2)
>           (line-spacing          . 1)
>           (active-alpha          . 0.875)
>           (inactive-alpha        . 0.75)
>           (font . "Courier-9")
>           (top . 25) (left . 650) (width . 91) (height . 50)))
>
>         (setq default-frame-alist '(
>           (border-color          . "#4e3831")
>           (foreground-color      . "grey10")
>           (background-color      . "ghost white")
>           (vertical-scroll-bars  . left)
>           (cursor-color          . "purple")
>           (cursor-type           . box)
>           (active-alpha          . 0.75)
>           (inactive-alpha        . 0.875)
>           (font . "Courier New-9")
>           (top . 50) (left . 150) (width . 89) (height . 56)))
>
> The important lines are those with font…
>
>
This worked. Thank you very much!

Best,
Joon