Re: Font issues with recent emacs

[Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu>]

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Greetings -

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Why do you insist on forcing on Emacs a specific fully qualified font
> definition?
>

Fair point, although in the first case the modeline gets healed after:
    C-h i
    C-x k RET
so emacs apparently knows how to change the default medium font to bold
under some circumstances.  Perhaps the bold font is being instantiated
prior to the default font getting re-instantiated based on my command-line
definition.  It seems to me that changing the default font on the command
line should change all the derivative fonts.

Anyway, I tried to use customize-face to set the default font, but I'm
having some difficulty.

Starting again from "emacs -Q":

After I invoke M-x customize-face default, the customize buffer says the
Font Family is courier and the Font Foundry is adobe.  I click in the
courier box and replace "courier" with "dejavu sans mono" (w/o the quotes).
 I click in the adobe box and replace "adobe" with "misc".  Next I held
State button to set the font for the current session and instead of
changing to "dejavu sans mono" the font changes to some kind of Times font.
 Showing the lisp expression confirms this:

Lisp expression:
((t
  (:family "times" :foundry "adobe" :width normal :height 129 :weight
normal :slant normal :underline nil :overline nil :strike-through nil :box
nil :inverse-video nil :foreground "black" :background "white" :stipple nil
:inherit nil)))

  - Vin

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