From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Zimmerman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Access inconsolata font after installing (debian wheezy) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:26:41 -0700 Message-ID: <878vp1k66m.fsf@foolinux.dyndns.org> References: <87oby0xkh3.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317684458 17978 80.91.229.12 (3 Oct 2011 23:27:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 23:27:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 04 01:27:34 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 1RArv2-0003F4-ND for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:27:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48468 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RArv2-0003mw-6o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:27:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39012) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RArut-0003mc-5G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:27:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RArur-0008TE-IE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:27:23 -0400 Original-Received: from li225-69.members.linode.com ([173.255.215.69]:46993 helo=ahiker.homeip.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RArur-0008QI-C9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:27:21 -0400 Original-Received: from adsl-75-30-79-187.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net ([75.30.79.187] helo=matica) by ahiker.homeip.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RAruJ-0007AR-9f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:26:47 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87oby0xkh3.fsf@newsguy.com> (Harry Putnam's message of "Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:15:04 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 173.255.215.69 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:82431 Archived-At: Harry> What can I do to make these fonts accessible to emacs? ttf (and PostScript) fonts use the freetype / fontconfig engines, which are separate from the traditional X bitmapped font rendering stuff. That is why xlsfonts doesn't know about it. Try fc-list to see if it is installed right; then, you should be able to use the name that fc-list shows in the "Font Family" Emacs customization widget. -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.