From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jai Dayal Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Frustrated with Font issues Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 14:38:26 -0600 Message-ID: References: <871tv35kbh.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87oay73y0s.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402000748 7947 80.91.229.3 (5 Jun 2014 20:39:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 20:39:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 05 22:39:02 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WseRB-0002bv-N6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 22:39:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WseRB-0000h6-7T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 16:39:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57176) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WseQz-0000gz-2C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 16:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WseQx-0003mG-NN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 16:38:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vc0-x234.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c03::234]:54313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WseQx-0003mA-En for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 16:38:47 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-vc0-f180.google.com with SMTP id hq11so1810444vcb.25 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:38:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=nrS1oq9TkNqSyqa5Q2uklU+jVARLwWGu2wSycwd7x44=; b=gSTCJjb8RmVknqSOFgm0S7LwgRHyKaUTQSKVnam66k1t1WPn+fsyltsKBggKJO+cYE W7efCztu6LgGSnUdfsL0G8c32SwNbCRq9qj7bpKJ6mcgutGav0OxchfushBeXfAW0g8a T9b4FhXlTtT9dm1cN2GsWRA6jXy6cjci0vz7rfcM+MUx4MbDQwDwEc8CVIyLHvv8BX/R 3AhAjBG0Imfwq8bWGoe8PuqbND4hP4pHELr4uP2SshunMkOhG1aikXTmrqS+TV319uRt QzWVi72kTd8Q2udQMP1lnQOH9dYXf0AUF/UIp+X+m2eXM+X+hL49QDHW9jE46xvvsmCd IssQ== X-Received: by 10.52.233.9 with SMTP id ts9mr75730vdc.96.1402000726679; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.220.112.10 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 13:38:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87oay73y0s.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400c:c03::234 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 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:98037 Archived-At: Okay, this kind of makes sense to me. I'm just a bit puzzled why if I do it on CentOS or RHEL, I only have this problem. If it's on Ubuntu or Fedora, the fonts are displayed normally. Perhaps CentOS and RHEL do something differently that Emacs doesn't pick up on. On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > Jai Dayal writes: > > > With set-frame-font, it doesn't have the same font set as other > > applications, though! That's the problem! They're not the same, at all. > > M-! xlsfonts RET should give you the font set, and it should be exactly > the same as for other applications. > > The only difference may be that in application font dialogs, this list > of X fonts is collected by font family and other categories. > > > Reasons you may get a different list of fonts however are: > > - you're using a different X server (improbable), > > - the applications are using other fonts than X fonts. For example, TeX > will use metafonts. Some GUI toolkit used by applications often use > TrueType fonts (instead or in addition to X fonts). > > There are some indications about using TrueType fonts in emacs in > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SetFonts#toc10 > but I don't know what's the status of this feature in emacs 24. > > > > -- > __Pascal Bourguignon__ > http://www.informatimago.com/ > "Le mercure monte ? C'est le moment d'acheter !" >