From: Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com>
To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Frustrated with Font issues
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 16:23:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMJ-YiTGp50Z9OB+EpYd7xoD-KsmaB5s4QyLQVa9s253Ut2xww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMJ-YiRKJwFENNdALnkuN-9E2QnD_Ro8_zHqcTfzxvytrhvSRQ@mail.gmail.com>
xlsfonts actually does indeed give a DIFFERENT set of fonts that Emacs
uses. Emacs actually only has a small subset of these fonts!
Jai
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <
> pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>
>> Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> 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 !"
>>
>
>
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.3026.1401985938.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-05 17:37 ` Frustrated with Font issues Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-06-05 19:06 ` Jai Dayal
2014-06-05 19:17 ` Jacob Gerlach
2014-06-05 19:22 ` Jai Dayal
2014-06-05 19:23 ` Jai Dayal
2014-06-05 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-05 19:41 ` Jai Dayal
2014-06-05 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-05 20:15 ` Jai Dayal
2014-06-06 4:36 ` Diep Pham
2014-06-06 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-06 18:31 ` Jai Dayal
[not found] ` <mailman.3043.1401995228.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-05 20:24 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-06-05 20:38 ` Jai Dayal
2014-06-05 22:23 ` Jai Dayal [this message]
[not found] <mailman.43487.1402021656.1146.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-06 13:21 ` Buchs, Kevin J.
2014-06-05 16:31 Jai Dayal
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