From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What is the best way to get emacs23? Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 05:43:09 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <3f1415b5-5f77-41fa-b1a0-7c6890809b5f@40g2000prx.googlegroups.com> References: <415fa895-01bd-47c5-8675-312cc3361264@r15g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226155249 373 80.91.229.12 (8 Nov 2008 14:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 14:40:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 08 15:41:52 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Kyp0X-0008Qa-E8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:41:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KyozP-0005c2-RO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:40:39 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!40g2000prx.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.7.74 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1226151790 2814 127.0.0.1 (8 Nov 2008 13:43:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 13:43:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 40g2000prx.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.7.74; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164239 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:59575 Archived-At: On Nov 6, 9:50=A0pm, Paul R wrote: > rustom> Well I did all this and i get Font `Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10' > rustom> is not defined. Note: I installed ttf-bitsream-vera Im on debian > rustom> etch > > start it with emacs -Q > if it works carry on else report here > > start with emacs -q > if it works fix your .emacs else fix your debian site-lisp installation > > where 'fix' means looking for a place where the default font is set. > A solution is to grep -R "bitstream" from the root of where you are > looking for it. > > -- > =A0 Paul Neither of emacs -q or -Q gives any problem But $ emacs -fn "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10" gives me Font `Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10' is not defined Note Ive installed the ttf-bitstream-vera debian package; which supplies the files: VeraBd.ttf VeraIt.ttf VeraMoBI.ttf VeraMono.ttf VeraSe.ttf VeraBI.ttf VeraMoBd.ttf VeraMoIt.ttf VeraSeBd.ttf Vera.ttf in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera What else do I need to do?