Re: font missing

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 11.06.2009 um 04:16 schrieb John P. Burkett:

> Suggestions for recovering the old "10x20" font would be appreciated.


The fonts in the fonts menu are set in GNU Emacs' source code – since  
decades (presumingly).

It is possible that your Gentoo PC still has these first generation  
bitmap fonts and it's just that these are not made available because  
the "font path" value is so short ('xset q' will show it), which you  
can change, for example in ~/.xinitrc. First step should be to  
determine where this font resides (file name might be share/fonts/ 
misc/10x20-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz for an ISO 8859-15 or Latin 9 8-bit  
encoding, or fonts/cyrillic/koi10x20.pcf.gz for some Cyrillic  
encoding, so a 'locate 10x20' should list the files). And, of course,  
it would be fine to find out whether the X server delivers the fonts  
or the client side, libfontconfig with programmes like fc-list or fc- 
cache and configuration files like fonts.conf, is doing the job.

In GNU Emacs you should be able to list all the fonts it sees in a  
volatile *Completions* buffer with:

        M-x set-frame-font RET TAB TAB

(It's best to imagine a file name for the volatile *Completions*  
buffer first and save it at once under this name.)

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  Pete

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