On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:47:01 +0900 Kenichi Handa <handa@ni.aist.go.jp> wrote:

> In article <87bq8lpi64.fsf@escher.local.home>, Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> I updated again and rebuilt and recompiled the Lisp files, but still
>> Emacs fails to open a frame, and now the message is this:
>> peculiar error: "invalid font property", (:spacing . iso8859)
>
> Hmmm, it seems that there still is a bug in parsing font
> name.  I want to know which font name causes that problem.
>
>> > There are also the app-defaults, probably in
>> > /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Emacs.
>
>> Yes, this has settings for Emacs.Font and Emacs*Fontset-0 through
>> Emacs*Fontset-8 
>
> Then please show me them.

Attached.

Steve Berman