From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs and New Athena Unicode font Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:28:58 +0200 Message-ID: <83ehwcn839.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323505752 15675 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2011 08:29:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:29:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Robert B. Gozzoli" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 10 09:29:08 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RZIIt-0007yq-CN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:29:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZIIs-0007iV-Rt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:29:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56174) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZIIn-0007iK-Op for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:29:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZIIm-0000zk-HH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:29:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:57990) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZIIm-0000ze-B3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:29:00 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LVZ00E00BJD8R00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:28:58 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.102.96]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LVZ00ABMBK9EDB1@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:28:58 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:83177 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 05:49:06 +0700 > From: "Robert B. Gozzoli" > > I am an Egyptologist using Emacs. As for my work, I need some > transliteration fonts, and New Athena Unicode is the one I am using > for my researches. I am using for my book in LaTeX, just for > information. The problem is that I want to set the default font in > Emacs as New Athena Unicode (the font can be retrieved at: > http://apagreekkeys.org/NAUdownload.html). > > But as soon as I set as default font, the window is actually shrunk, > please see attachment. Please describe how did you set up New Athena Unicode as the default font. In any case, this font causes some real trouble to Emacs. E.g., if I select it via the Shift-F1 font selection dialog, typing "C-x 2" to split the current window causes an immediate abort. I'm guessing that some metrics in the font file are either incomplete or incorrect (negative?). E.g., the smallest font height computed by Emacs for this font is -5, which is obviously bogus. However, I don't know enough about fonts to tell which metrics are wrong. Maybe someone else can help. Failing that, I suggest to talk to people who maintain this font and tell them about your problem with Emacs. Maybe they will know which metrics need to be fixed, or tell what Emacs does wrong with this font.