From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
"Kumar, Amit" <ahkumar@mail.smu.edu>
Subject: Re: Emacs Display Recangular blocks instead of fonts
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 09:24:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ip24k12i.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ndpta6g.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Mon, 27 May 2013 11:43:03 +0900")
>>>>> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
SJT> I don't recall exactly how modern X servers handle server-side fonts.
The majority of the current distributions default to installing the X
server with built-in support for the misc-fixed and cursor fonts and
with the font-path set to "built-ins" (to find those two).
They expect everything to use client-side fonts.
But I believe they still have the font loader for bdf and pcf files,
so it should be possible to install the bitmap font packages and add
the necessary directories to the font-path.
As one example, on debian sid,
:; apt-cache search xfonts|grep ^xfonts
lists 77 packages, (75 font packages, plus encodings and utils).
-JimC
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-27 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-26 23:32 Emacs Display Recangular blocks instead of fonts Kumar, Amit
2013-05-27 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-27 2:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-27 7:07 ` Kumar, Amit
2013-05-27 11:12 ` Per Starbäck
2013-05-27 13:24 ` James Cloos [this message]
2013-05-27 13:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-27 13:50 ` James Cloos
2013-05-27 14:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-05-27 14:32 ` James Cloos
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