Unable to use custom font in 21.2.1

Unable to use custom font in 21.2.1

[Max Spring]

I have my own fixed-width fonts, installed in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc.  They work fine in XTerm, etc.

When I try to bring up one of these fonts with 'set-default-font', a
scalable font is used instead of my own.  On the other hand, a
'set-default-font 10x20' works as expected.

It used to work with previous versions of Emacs.

What am I missing?
-Max

Re: Unable to use custom font in 21.2.1

[Kai Großjohann]

mspring@employees.org (Max Spring) writes:

> When I try to bring up one of these fonts with 'set-default-font', a
> scalable font is used instead of my own.  On the other hand, a
> 'set-default-font 10x20' works as expected.

Do you use the long-font-name-with-lotsa-dashes?  

-- 
~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn    (Frank Nobis)

Re: Unable to use custom font in 21.2.1

[Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>]

>>>>> "Max" == Max Spring <mspring@employees.org> writes:
> I have my own fixed-width fonts, installed in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc.  They work fine in XTerm, etc.
> When I try to bring up one of these fonts with 'set-default-font', a
> scalable font is used instead of my own.  On the other hand, a
> 'set-default-font 10x20' works as expected.
> It used to work with previous versions of Emacs.
> What am I missing?

I don't know what you're missing, but I know your message is
missing details.


        Stefan

Re: Unable to use custom font in 21.2.1

[Max Spring]

Here are more details:  I've installed a fixpoint font

   $ cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
   $ ls sepps-10x18-os2.*
   sepps-10x18-os2.pcf.gz
   $ xlsfonts sepps-10x18-os2
   sepps-10x18-os2
   $ egrep sepps-10x18-os2 fonts.dir
   sepps-10x18-os2.pcf.gz sepps-10x18-os2
   $ xlsfonts -l 10x20
   DIR  MIN  MAX EXIST DFLT PROP ASC DESC NAME
   -->    0  255  some    0   22  16    4 10x20
   -->    0  255  some    0   22  16    4 10x20
   $ xlsfonts -l sepps-10x18-os2
   DIR  MIN  MAX EXIST DFLT PROP ASC DESC NAME
   -->    0  255   all   32    8  14    4 sepps-10x18-os2
   -->    0  255   all   32    8  14    4 sepps-10x18-os2

When I eval 

   (set-default-font "sepps-08x18-os2")

the font which gets actually displayed is a Courier font with probably an 8x18
character size.  Whereas if I eval

   (set-default-font "10x20")

I see the proper 10x20 fixpoint displayed.

A further aspect: With Emacs 20.7 I didn't have this problem.  My fixpoint
font gets displayed as expected.

-Max


"Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> wrote in message news:<5l3coyeyrn.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu>...
> >>>>> "Max" == Max Spring <mspring@employees.org> writes:
> > I have my own fixed-width fonts, installed in
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc.  They work fine in XTerm, etc.
> > When I try to bring up one of these fonts with 'set-default-font', a
> > scalable font is used instead of my own.  On the other hand, a
> > 'set-default-font 10x20' works as expected.
> > It used to work with previous versions of Emacs.
> > What am I missing?
> 
> I don't know what you're missing, but I know your message is
> missing details.
> 
> 
>         Stefan