Emacs CVS 22.0.90 and XFT fonts on ubuntu-powerbook ?

Emacs CVS 22.0.90 and XFT fonts on ubuntu-powerbook ?

[Bastien]

Hi,

i just compiled Emacs following the instructions found here:
<http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs>

I expected anti-aliased fonts, but 

  emacs --enable-font-backend --font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10"

yields a somewhat disappointing 

  "No fonts match: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10"

I'm sure i'm missing something very obvious, maybe not directly
related to Emacs.  I'm running Emacs from within ratpoison - Ubuntu
edgy on a powerbook G4.

Any hint would be very welcome!

-- 
Bastien

Re: Emacs CVS 22.0.90 and XFT fonts on ubuntu-powerbook ?

[Olive]

Bastien wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i just compiled Emacs following the instructions found here:
> <http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs>
> 
> I expected anti-aliased fonts, but 
> 
>   emacs --enable-font-backend --font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10"
> 
> yields a somewhat disappointing 
> 
>   "No fonts match: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10"
> 
> I'm sure i'm missing something very obvious, maybe not directly
> related to Emacs.  I'm running Emacs from within ratpoison - Ubuntu
> edgy on a powerbook G4.
> 
> Any hint would be very welcome!
> 

I do not know this version of emacs, but under the standard emacs, you 
can get a list of the fonts seen by emacs by evaluating the following 
expression:

(print (x-list-fonts "*") (current-buffer))

(to evaluate an expression, type it in a buffer, place the cursor right 
after it and Press C-x C-e)

Olive

Re: Emacs CVS 22.0.90 and XFT fonts on ubuntu-powerbook ?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.11.2006 um 23:39 schrieb Bastien:

>   "No fonts match: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10"

Did you invoke fc-list to see all fonts? Another reason can be that  
the Bitstream Vera fonts are not seen from fontconfig. Using this  
extension you leave the well-known world of X11 and its fontpath  
setting. Fontconfig has its own (set of) configuration file(s) in / 
etc and at HOME. And it uses cache files. Upon first launch of a  
fontconfig using application it might take some minutes (could be 10  
or 15) to build the cache files.

--
Greetings

   Pete

The box said "Use Windows 95 or better," so I got a Macintosh.

Re: Emacs CVS 22.0.90 and XFT fonts on ubuntu-powerbook ?

[Brep]

Bastien <bzgNOSPAM@altern.org> writes:

> i just compiled Emacs following the instructions found here:
> <http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs>

This version of Emacs doesn't support XFT fonts. What you need is the
emacs-unicode-2 branch in the CVS repository, you can checkout the
source code with this command:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs \
    co -r emacs-unicode-2 emacs

Re: Emacs CVS 22.0.90 and XFT fonts on ubuntu-powerbook ?

[Bastien]

Brep <brep@smth.org> writes:

> Bastien <bzgNOSPAM@altern.org> writes:
>
>> i just compiled Emacs following the instructions found here:
>> <http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs>
>
> This version of Emacs doesn't support XFT fonts. What you need is the
> emacs-unicode-2 branch in the CVS repository, you can checkout the
> source code with this command:
>
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs \
>     co -r emacs-unicode-2 emacs

Works great - thank!

-- 
Bastien