From: "Alejandro Pérez Carballo" <apc@umass.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 58335@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58335: 28.2; Default font 'not available' when running dictionary
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 15:57:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FE9A63D9-0D90-42A3-A88E-8137EEF2020C@umass.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838rlsq12e.fsf@gnu.org>
I see. Somehow it accepts Arial, though… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
At any rate, I think the real problem is what you point out—it should take as fallback whatever is the default face, and not a font called ‘default’!
> On Oct 6, 2022, at 2:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Alejandro Pérez Carballo <apc@umass.edu>
>> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 13:33:49 -0400
>> Cc: 58335@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> If I try
>>
>> emacs -Q -fn Input
>>
>> I get Emacs to open with Input as the default font just fine.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve been using Input with Emacs for over two years without any trouble. In what sense is Emacs rejecting it?
>
> Not Emacs (forgive me my inaccurate wording), but dictionary.el: it
> wants a serif font, AFAIU, whereas Input is a sans-serif font.
>
> I don't understand why dictionary insists on a serif font. But the
> fallback used there should not use a non-existent font family name.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-06 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-06 12:38 bug#58335: 28.2; Default font 'not available' when running dictionary Alejandro Pérez Carballo
2022-10-06 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-06 17:33 ` Alejandro Pérez Carballo
2022-10-06 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-06 19:57 ` Alejandro Pérez Carballo [this message]
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