Emacs fonts in F12
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at clemson.edu
Mon Nov 30 18:45:00 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 06:41 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 18:35 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> >> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >>
> >> > In F11, selecting the same font in Emacs as the system monospace
> >> font
> >> > (in my case, Monospace Regular 7-point) resulted in an Emacs
> window
> >> with
> >> > a typeface that looked the same as the one in a gnome-terminal.
> In
> >> F21,
> >> > the same font looks (a) much smaller and (b) more widely spaced
> than
> >> the
> >> > gnome-terminal font (which looks the same as it did in F11).
> >> >
> >> > Any idea what changed in Emacs and how I can get the font I want?
> >> >
> >> > TIA.
> >> >
> >> emacs-23 happened. Fonts are MUCH better. Emacs can now use non-
> >> bitmapped fonts.
> >
> > Ah, you remind me that I had loaded emacs-23 in F11 from updates-
> testing
> > (for just this reason). That's why I was able to use the gnome-
> terminal
> > fonts in the first place.
Here's another observation I've made. In the GNOME font selector,
switching between Monospace and DejaVu Sans Mono has no effect on the
appearance of a gnome-terminal. So my hypothesis is that Monospace is
in fact an alias for DejaVu Sans Mono, and Emacs has the correct font
designated but is somehow incorrectly getting a different font or is
rendering it differently.
Any ideas what to try next to debug?
> >
> >>
> >> Here are some suggestions:
> >> 1.
> >> (cond
> >> ((display-graphic-p)
> >> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "DejaVu
> Sans
> >> Mono-9" :slant 'normal :weight 'normal)))
> >
> > In my .emacs file, I have
> >
> > (custom-set-faces
> > ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
> > ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be
> careful.
> > ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
> > ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
> > '(default ((t (:inherit nil :stipple nil :background
> > "lightgrey" :foreground "black" :inverse-video nil :box
> > nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant
> > normal :weight normal :height 83 :width normal :foundry
> > "unknown" :family "DejaVu Sans Mono")))))
> >
> > I did add the :background setting by hand, but the rest is what was
> > saved by Emacs. Does the fact that you have "DejaVu Sans Mono-9"
> and I
> > have "DejaVu Sans Mono" make a difference? If so, how did you get
> that
> > string?
>
> The -9 is the size. You can pick another if you like. As to how I
> came up with it, I'm afraid I don't recall.
>
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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