From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Utcke Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What font is this symbol in Date: 29 Oct 2007 10:40:39 +0100 Organization: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Message-ID: References: <87tzohtk2q.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193654511 28641 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2007 10:41:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:41:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 29 11:41:53 2007 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 1ImS48-0000Je-2w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:41:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ImS3y-0005of-HS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:41:42 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!claire.desy.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: hasgksssven.desy.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153408 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:48896 Archived-At: Tim X writes: > Sven Utcke writes: > >> I like to use 10x20 as my font in Emacs, and never had any problem so > >> far. However, here at my new employee I see weird interactions > >> between font-lock and what might be a coding issue. If, e.g., I use > >> "\bf" in a LaTeX-mode file (deprecated, I know :-) I instead see what > >> looks roughtly like "¥bf" (it's actually a differently looking > >> Yen-symbol, presumably from a different font). > > > > So how do I debug this? More specifically, how do I find out from > > what font a particular symbol in an emacs-buffer is taken? > > For emacs 22, M-x describe-char should give you some relevant details. Alas, this is: GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2006-08-11 on yort.fnal.gov Any ideas? Sven -- ___ _ _____ ___ Dr.-Ing. Sven Utcke ___ ___ _____ __ / __| |/ / __| __| phone: +49 40 8998-5317 | \| __/ __\ \ / / | (_ | ' <\__ \__ \ fax : +49 40 8998-4203 | |) | _|\__ \\ V / \___|_|\_\___|___/ http://www.desy.de/~utcke (to come)|___/|___|___/ |_|