VGA (and standard) font is thin in emacs 21.2

VGA (and standard) font is thin in emacs 21.2

[Erik Red]

The previous posting below describes exactly the problem I'm having,
but regrettably there were no solution posted to this problem.

I would like to ask again if anyone know how to fix this problem.

Please post AND email if possible --
Thanks

From: Martin Cracauer (cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de)
Subject: Fonts automatically thinned in emacs-21?
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Date: 2002-08-19 16:50:33 PST

Hi,

problem with emacs-21.2:

I like to use the "vga" font on X11, which works fine on previous
versions of emacs.  This font is made of pretty thick lines.

Emacs-21.2 seems to automatically thin these lines.  It takes the
geometry of the "vga" font just fine, but not the layout of the
characters.  It seems to me that this is an emacs-21.2 feature I don't
want but I can't figure out how to turn it off.

I put screenshots here:
what I want: http://www.cons.org/tmp/l1.gif
what I get:  http://www.cons.org/tmp/l2.gif

Please note that I am sure the actual loading of the font succeeded.
emacs-21.2 changed th size of the font (and hence the window) just
fine 
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and it arrives at the new font geometry as specified in the "vga"
font, switching away fromt he previously loaded font.  But the new
f
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ont is thinned.

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isp is code is simply (set-frame-font "vga")

Let me guess: I need to define a fontset and load the supposely thick
font into the slot of the normal one?

Thanks
        Martin

Re: VGA (and standard) font is thin in emacs 21.2

[Kevin Rodgers]

Erik Red wrote:

> Lisp is code is simply (set-frame-font "vga")
> 
> Let me guess: I need to define a fontset and load the supposely thick
> font into the slot of the normal one?

Use xfontsel to determine the actual font name (XLFD = X Logical Font Description),

e.g. -foundary-family-weight-slant-set width---pixel size-point size-horizontal 
resolution-vertical resolution-spacing-average width-registry-encoding.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers