From: "Kumar, Amit" <ahkumar@mail.smu.edu>
To: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Emacs Display Recangular blocks instead of fonts
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 23:32:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BB6BA2C397CCB140A2475E542B216447053B3059@SXMB1PG.SYSTEMS.SMU.EDU> (raw)
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Dear All,
I am here is a deadlock situation and can't figure out this font problem: I have extensively looked online for a solution and none seems to work, and have been very disturbed by the fact that I can get this to work.
I get this very famous error, but my efforts have been futile to fix this:
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
What I don't understand is why is emacs resorting to these fonts, if it has problems can't it use some other fonts to display a normal screen? Instead it displays rectangular boxes for each letter.
Below here are the details of the version of the OS and packages installed and further details. Hope you can help me understand the problem that can lead me to a solution, and make me feel better in helping me fix this. It has been a day-mare!
Best Regards,
Amit
Linux: Scientific Linux SL release 5.5
$ rpm -qa | grep emacs
emacs-common-21.4-20.el5
emacspeak-23.0-3.el5
emacs-21.4-20.el5
emacs-leim-21.4-20.el5
$ rpm -qa | grep fonts
xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-100dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-7
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-75dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
urw-fonts-2.3-6.1.1
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-75dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-100dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-syriac-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-14-75dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-base-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-13.1.1
tetex-fonts-3.0-33.8.el5_5.5
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic-7.1-2.1.el5
liberation-fonts-1.0-1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic-7.1-2.1.el5
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
Fonts directory listed in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
.....
<!-- Font directory list -->
<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/X11/fonts/OTF</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/X11/fonts/encodings</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/X11/fonts/util</dir>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
....
Directory contents:
$ ls /usr/share/fonts/
bitstream-vera default java liberation
$ ls /usr/share/X11/fonts/
100dpi 75dpi cyrillic encodings misc OTF TTF Type1 util
I also ran `fc-cache -f -s -v` in addition to `xset fp rehash` to clean up cache and rehash it.
$ fc-list | grep -i "courier"
Courier:style=Bold Italic
Courier:style=Regular
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Bold Italic
Courier:style=Oblique
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Italic
Courier:style=Bold Oblique
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Regular
Courier:style=Italic
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Bold
$ fc-list | grep -i helvetica
Helvetica:style=Oblique
Helvetica:style=Bold
Helvetica:style=Regular
Helvetica:style=Bold Oblique
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next reply other threads:[~2013-05-26 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-26 23:32 Kumar, Amit [this message]
2013-05-27 2:03 ` Emacs Display Recangular blocks instead of fonts Stefan Monnier
2013-05-27 2:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-27 7:07 ` Kumar, Amit
2013-05-27 11:12 ` Per Starbäck
2013-05-27 13:24 ` James Cloos
2013-05-27 13:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-27 13:50 ` James Cloos
2013-05-27 14:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-05-27 14:32 ` James Cloos
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