emacs (mswindows) font problem

emacs (mswindows) font problem

[Jon Kvebaek]

Hi - I really like the gamow font from
http://dreamer.nitro.dk/linux/lfp/lfpfonts-win.html

I use it under linux, but am unable to get emacs to display it under
windows. The windows version of the font is called gamow-14 (or
gamow-10), and comes in .fon files (gamow-14-m-r.fon,
gamow-10-m-r.fon).

The font displays in the font menu (shit-lmouse), but if I select it I
just get a default courier font.

Any ideas?
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Re: emacs (mswindows) font problem

[Jason Rumney]

Jon Kvebaek <usenet@nihilum.net> writes:

> Hi - I really like the gamow font from
> http://dreamer.nitro.dk/linux/lfp/lfpfonts-win.html
> 
...
> The font displays in the font menu (shit-lmouse), but if I select it I
> just get a default courier font.
> 
> Any ideas?

The problem stems from the fact that Emacs always uses a Latin-1 font
to display ASCII unless you go to the trouble of making a fontset.

The font has a non-standard value for its encoding.  One way to get it
to display would be to load the font into a font editor, and change
the encoding field to ANSI (the Windows equivalent of Latin-1).

Another way that does not involve changing the font is to define a
fontset using that font as the base:

(set-default-font (create-fontset-from-ascii-font "FONTNAME"))

or to have newly created frames use the font:

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist 
             `(font . ,(create-fontset-from-ascii-font "FONTNAME")))

Where FONTNAME should be replaced by the full name of the font, which
on MS-Windows is reported by (w32-select-font) C-x C-e.


-- 
Jason Rumney