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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Alejandro Pérez Carballo" <apc@umass.edu>
Cc: 58335@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58335: 28.2; Default font 'not available' when running dictionary
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:06:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838rlsq12e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A3F00B96-DE12-4DEF-BBE0-C56A3283FF36@umass.edu> (message from Alejandro Pérez Carballo on Thu, 6 Oct 2022 13:33:49 -0400)

> From: Alejandro Pérez Carballo <apc@umass.edu>
> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 13:33:49 -0400
> Cc: 58335@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> If I try
> 
> emacs -Q -fn Input
> 
> I get Emacs to open with Input as the default font just fine. 
> 
> 
> 
> I’ve been using Input with Emacs for over two years without any trouble. In what sense is Emacs rejecting it? 

Not Emacs (forgive me my inaccurate wording), but dictionary.el: it
wants a serif font, AFAIU, whereas Input is a sans-serif font.

I don't understand why dictionary insists on a serif font.  But the
fallback used there should not use a non-existent font family name.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-06 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-06 12:38 bug#58335: 28.2; Default font 'not available' when running dictionary Alejandro Pérez Carballo
2022-10-06 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-06 17:33   ` Alejandro Pérez Carballo
2022-10-06 18:06     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-10-06 19:57       ` Alejandro Pérez Carballo

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