From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Access inconsolata font after installing (debian wheezy) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:17:03 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <878vp1wo6o.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87oby0xkh3.fsf@newsguy.com> <878vp1k66m.fsf@foolinux.dyndns.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317691054 22407 80.91.229.12 (4 Oct 2011 01:17:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 01:17:34 +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 03:17:27 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 1RAtdO-00050d-FM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:17:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAtdO-0002dB-0D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36058) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAtdJ-0002d3-MG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAtdI-0006Q7-Hf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAtdI-0006Pz-7X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:17:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RAtdG-0004z7-1l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:17:18 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.179.64]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:17:18 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:17:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NfHL+Z5aK049mfBTcb4EUCi9s4w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:82432 Archived-At: Ian Zimmerman writes: > 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. fc-list|grep -i incon Inconsolata:style=Medium I've never really understood the term `widget'. Do you mean something in the gui menus at the top of emacs? Or do you just mean the customization tools?