Better fonts on Linux with emacs22?

Better fonts on Linux with emacs22?

[John Wells]

Guys,

I'm running emacs22 on Ubuntu (Gutsy) Linux and would like to use
cleaner looking fonts, such as Bitstream. I'm an emacs newb, so please
forgive me if this is obvious. I've read a few posts of folks being
able to do the following:

$ emacs22  --font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10"

But all I get is:

No fonts match `Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10'

That happens no matter what I try:

$ emacs22  --font "Monospace"
No fonts match `Monospace'

$ emacs22  --font "Monospace-10"
No fonts match `Monospace-10'

Is there no way to do this in 22? Should I be running something else?
I really enjoy emacs so far, but the fonts are a bit painful.

Thanks!
John

Re: Better fonts on Linux with emacs22?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.12.2007 um 16:54 schrieb John Wells:

> $ emacs22  --font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10"
>
> But all I get is:
>
> No fonts match `Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10'


GNU Emacs 22 is not prepared to use font names à la libfontconfig  
(Unicode Emacs 23.0.0 or 23.0.60 from CVS allows so).

xlsfonts -fn '-*-bitstream vera sans*' (or '-*-monospace*') can list  
what your system offers. Then use such a font name. The xfontsel  
application can also find you font names.

The X Logical Font Description (XLFD) conventions allow to substitute  
elements with the '*' wildcard character.

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Re: Better fonts on Linux with emacs22?

[David Golden]

John Wells wrote:

> Is there no way to do this in 22? Should I be running something else?
> I really enjoy emacs so far, but the fonts are a bit painful.

See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs