Emacs and New Athena Unicode font

Emacs and New Athena Unicode font

[Robert B. Gozzoli]

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Dear List members,
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.
I am on Windows 7, Home version, and this happens also for my netbook
and PC, so it is not a machine related problem. I do not know how to
go over the problem itself, or if some of the members have experiences
something similar with other fonts.

Any help will be appreciated. I have tried to set up a similar font,
but the results are similar. It can be this an Windows problem for the
Emacs version only, and Linux version and Mac is working fine. I do
not have a Mac to try and my working system is in Windows.

All the best,

Roberto Gozzoli,
Siam University

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Re: Emacs and New Athena Unicode font

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.12.2011 um 23:49 schrieb Robert B. Gozzoli:

> As for my work, I need some transliteration fonts, and New Athena Unicode is the one I am using for my researches.

Which Unicode blocks do you actually need? Maybe a different font works. (I have found some others that don't work well in GNU Emacs.)

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Greetings

  Pete

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Re: Emacs and New Athena Unicode font

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 05:49:06 +0700
> From: "Robert B. Gozzoli" <r.b.gozzoli@gmail.com>
> 
> 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.