Re: Looking for new fixed font for Emacs

[Torsten Bronger]

Halloechen!

Henrik Enberg <henrik.enberg@telia.com> writes:

> Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
>
>> So far, I've used
>>
>> (set-default-font "10x20")
>>
>> which I like very much, but with my new screen resolution I need a
>> bigger one.  12x24 looks silly in my opinion.  I'd prefer something
>> that has the typical fixed pitch look of 10x20.pcf.  Any
>> suggestions?
>
> terminus has large sizes and is attractive.
>
> <http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/jimmy-en.html>

This looks promising, so I installed it.  In
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, I've had so far my old font (well, I
*think* that this is what's loaded by the above Elisp command):

10x20-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz   10x20-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz  10x20-ISO8859-8.pcf.gz
10x20-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz  10x20-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz   10x20-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz
10x20-ISO8859-11.pcf.gz  10x20-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz   10x20-KOI8-R.pcf.gz
10x20-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz  10x20-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz   10x20.pcf.gz
10x20-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz  10x20-ISO8859-5.pcf.gz
10x20-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz  10x20-ISO8859-7.pcf.gz

Now, there is also

ter-114b.pcf.gz  ter-528n.pcf.gz  ter-d24b.pcf.gz  ter-k16n.pcf.gz
ter-114n.pcf.gz  ter-532b.pcf.gz  ter-d24n.pcf.gz  ter-k20b.pcf.gz
ter-116b.pcf.gz  ter-532n.pcf.gz  ter-d28b.pcf.gz  ter-k20n.pcf.gz
ter-116n.pcf.gz  ter-914b.pcf.gz  ter-d28n.pcf.gz  ter-k24b.pcf.gz
ter-120b.pcf.gz  ter-914n.pcf.gz  ter-d32b.pcf.gz  ter-k24n.pcf.gz
ter-120n.pcf.gz  ter-916b.pcf.gz  ter-d32n.pcf.gz  ter-k28b.pcf.gz
ter-124b.pcf.gz  ter-916n.pcf.gz  ter-f14b.pcf.gz  ter-k28n.pcf.gz
ter-124n.pcf.gz  ter-920b.pcf.gz  ter-f14n.pcf.gz  ter-k32b.pcf.gz
...

fonts.dir is updated, and the X server restarted.  But what to put
in .emacs? For example, (set-default-font "ter-114n") doesn't work.

Tschoe,
Torsten.

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