Re: Unable to use custom font in 21.2.1

[Max Spring]

Here are more details:  I've installed a fixpoint font

   $ cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
   $ ls sepps-10x18-os2.*
   sepps-10x18-os2.pcf.gz
   $ xlsfonts sepps-10x18-os2
   sepps-10x18-os2
   $ egrep sepps-10x18-os2 fonts.dir
   sepps-10x18-os2.pcf.gz sepps-10x18-os2
   $ xlsfonts -l 10x20
   DIR  MIN  MAX EXIST DFLT PROP ASC DESC NAME
   -->    0  255  some    0   22  16    4 10x20
   -->    0  255  some    0   22  16    4 10x20
   $ xlsfonts -l sepps-10x18-os2
   DIR  MIN  MAX EXIST DFLT PROP ASC DESC NAME
   -->    0  255   all   32    8  14    4 sepps-10x18-os2
   -->    0  255   all   32    8  14    4 sepps-10x18-os2

When I eval 

   (set-default-font "sepps-08x18-os2")

the font which gets actually displayed is a Courier font with probably an 8x18
character size.  Whereas if I eval

   (set-default-font "10x20")

I see the proper 10x20 fixpoint displayed.

A further aspect: With Emacs 20.7 I didn't have this problem.  My fixpoint
font gets displayed as expected.

-Max


"Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> 
wrote in message news:<5l3coyeyrn.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu>...
> >>>>> "Max" == Max Spring <mspring@employees.org> writes:
> > I have my own fixed-width fonts, installed in
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc.  They work fine in XTerm, etc.
> > When I try to bring up one of these fonts with 'set-default-font', a
> > scalable font is used instead of my own.  On the other hand, a
> > 'set-default-font 10x20' works as expected.
> > It used to work with previous versions of Emacs.
> > What am I missing?
> 
> I don't know what you're missing, but I know your message is
> missing details.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Kai Gro=DFjohann wrote:

> Alas, the Unix crowd appears to follow the Perl
> philosophy `There is more than one way to do it', and hence, different
> Unices have different ways.

You've your history backwards--- UNIX predates Perl by better than ten
years.  Much of the duplication of functionality in UNIX comes from the
SysV/Berkeley split.  Pretty much any introductory UNIX text can explain
what this means; try ORA's "Unix in a Nutshell" for one. "Essential System
Administration", also from O'Reilly, has the most comprehensive I've yet
seen anywhere. (both in unix.ora.com somewhere)

> FreeBSD has pkg_add and friends.  Solaris also has something named
> pkgfoo, for some value of foo.

foo=3Dadd  (Solaris' package installer is called pkgadd.)

> MacOS has fink, amongst others.  Since MacOS is based on FreeBSD (or is
> it NetBSD or OpenBSD) in some way, maybe MacOS also uses pkg_add and
> friends?

(assuming that by 'MacOS' you mean 'OS X' . . .)
Fink is a system that ports and packages programs for installation to OS X;
Debian tools (dpkg; apt) are used for installation: fink.sf.net: "We
modify Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X ("port" it)
and make it available for download as a coherent distribution."
OS X's Unix subsystem is based on FreeBSD: developer.apple.com: "Darwin is
the core of Mac OS X. The Darwin kernel is based on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0
technologies and provides protected memory and pre-emptive multitasking."
While I don't have the patience to wade through Apple's site, the
GNU-Darwin distribution uses pkg_add.  (So that'd be a "yes" to your last
question.)

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