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: change look of font courier prime Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:40:47 +0200 Message-ID: <6160C7D3-2CDE-463D-AF7D-BC751160E5D9@Web.DE> References: <7030d710-1344-49a5-bddf-ba25cba187fe@googlegroups.com> <1baafea6-e782-4ec1-8b1f-36f0ca2f44a9@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374324058 3604 80.91.229.3 (20 Jul 2013 12:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:40:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs Help To: julius yu Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 20 14:41:00 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V0WT5-0008LD-T2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:41:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0WT5-0005zl-FH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 08:40:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53798) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0WSw-0005ws-2J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 08:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0WSv-0003GL-1Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 08:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.11]:57841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0WSu-0003GH-O7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 08:40:48 -0400 Original-Received: from sumac.fritz.box ([88.153.241.211]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb103) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MYvxn-1UeN1Y29ch-00Vi8a for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:40:47 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1baafea6-e782-4ec1-8b1f-36f0ca2f44a9@googlegroups.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:aMhjVnKWM0pEWyxETKP6VRp+aclfEisjUwpGkcqY7gTbgqAn826 Hdpv+M/9RuQ2+f37G36AcpRqCLJK+v+ChjFjK6P7xMcxD3x9qbrqc636fmjH+pODQHilSYg 68xfqAsOHcoRivHHsPieOhal9mToTJ2lbBZ+uCYZ25uRatEpomqoik2tvSUXXQIywg815GT ciBI9PoRnHQTn70YyPxmw== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.11 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92272 Archived-At: Am 20.07.2013 um 13:43 schrieb julius yu: > he courier prime is a free font located at = http://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/. >=20 > Please help how to detect whether the font is using the full width = characters? It does not seem to have full width characters, but it is certainly not = OK. At least not with an X client like GNU Emacs. My invocation was: emacs -Q -fn "Courier Prime" Trying the font with the NS and "AppKit" variants of GNU Emacs on Mac OS = X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) revealed that the fonts are OK for these two = Emacsen (version 24.3). Loading the font in FontForge, it emits some warnings, but none would = explain the failure in X11. There are more monospaced fonts: DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace, = Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Latin Modern Mono, Libertine Mono=85 -- Greetings Pete To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists = solutions are things that are still all mixed up.