From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: recommended font for emacs xft Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:13:13 +0200 Message-ID: <202B9075-5D3B-48F7-A2F7-5F261F03D6C8@Web.DE> References: <87vebhgc3z.fsf@pu100877.student.princeton.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187194431 31050 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2007 16:13:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:13:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Tamas Papp Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 18:13:45 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 1ILLV4-0003de-7j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:13:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILLV3-0005cq-HF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:13:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILLUp-0005cW-1T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:13:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILLUm-0005c2-7p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:13:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILLUm-0005bv-1Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:13:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ILLUl-0002Lj-O4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:13:19 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp08.web.de (fmsmtp08.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C56942D34C; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:13:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [62.134.231.251] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.108 #197) id 1ILLUk-0005j7-00; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:13:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87vebhgc3z.fsf@pu100877.student.princeton.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+GuFWjCZBl0LsClQT93XuTLi0p7UPY3t6R62BX IK90WO+pdz64wLC6gCkra0dRTDDi/UrbNAnCDe8Jk+DHkSgn17 QCpGlMAe37WLRQZzjhMQ== X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:46569 Archived-At: Am 15.08.2007 um 15:29 schrieb Tamas Papp: > I could not find a font that is just "right": Monospace-11 > looks very "weak". I am looking for something not to tall Check out Lucida Sans Typewriter in Java. DejaVu Sans Mono is an extension of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (basically Latin/Losedows encodings) with glyphs from the Arev TeX font plus a whole lot more to support Unicode 5.0. For me it wastes space. Lucida Sans Typewriter is not that complete, but usually it's sufficient for me, although I haven't yet created really useful charsets. -- Greetings Pete Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night, but set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.