From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Setting font to Lucida Grande on Mac OS X
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:09:05 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309151509.h8FF95Z22652@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ad96a94d.fsf@owlbear.local> (message from Andrew Choi on Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:55:30 -0600)
Andrew Choi wrote:
do something like this:
M-x set-frame-font RET -apple-lucida grande-medium-r-normal--12-0-75-75-m-0-mac-roman
I guess that gets rid of Sancho's concrete problem, but it does not
answer the following question:
Why does
M-x set-frame-font RET -*-Courier-*-120-*
work and
M-x set-frame-font RET -*-Lucida Grande-*-120-*
not?
Maybe `-*-Lucida Grande-*-120-*' really is unmatched (I can not
check), but look at the example below.
The difference between a user question belonging on `gnu.emacs.help'
and a question belonging on this site is that the answer to the former
could have been found in the standard documentation, in this case the
Emacs manual.
>From (emacs)Font X :
You can use wildcard patterns for the font name; then Emacs lets X
choose one of the fonts that match the pattern.
Not quite. Emacs (or X) will not be able to find some fonts this way.
Neither will xlsfonts. I guess that if I were an expert on fonts, the
example below would be obvious to me, but I believe that being an
expert on fonts should not be a prerequisite to being able to specify
a font for Emacs.
[bash2.05b.0 ~ 3 1] emacs-21.3.50 -fn
'-abisource-courier-bold-i-normal--17-120-*-*-*-*-*'
No fonts match `-abisource-courier-bold-i-normal--17-120-*-*-*-*-*'
[bash2.05b.0 ~ 3 2] emacs-21.3.50 -fn
'-abisource-courier-bold-i-normal--17-120-*-*-*-*-*-*'
[bash2.05b.0 ~ 3 3]
Why does the second line work and the first one not? Does `*' not
match `*-*' anyway? It does for `-*-Courier-*-120-*'.
Is it possible to tell in one or two lines in (emacs)Font X what is
going on here? Or am I missing something truly obvious (even to non
font experts)?
Sincerely,
Luc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-15 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-14 22:43 Setting font to Lucida Grande on Mac OS X Sancho Neves-Graca
2003-09-14 23:10 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-15 5:55 ` Andrew Choi
2003-09-15 15:09 ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2003-09-16 1:19 ` Sancho Neves-Graca
2003-09-16 3:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-17 2:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-17 12:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-17 12:49 ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-17 16:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-18 15:14 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-19 11:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-19 14:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-19 15:11 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-20 7:50 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-20 12:04 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-20 13:06 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-19 15:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-19 22:53 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-20 21:27 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-21 1:13 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-20 21:26 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-22 10:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-22 18:23 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-22 22:57 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-22 23:08 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-20 3:30 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-18 11:05 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-14 23:09 Sancho Neves-Graca
2003-09-14 23:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-14 23:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-15 4:10 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-15 4:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-15 4:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
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