Re: problems with efont

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.01.2010 um 18:22 schrieb Peter Münster:

> I tried
> -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-20-140-100-100-m-120- 
> iso10646-1

Sorry for my late reply, I had some other things to do – and  
particularly to remember my experience with efont! From this XLFD name  
I cannot tell anything. You could! For example by removing elements of  
the X server's font path (and rehashing the remainder) and see when  
this font vanishes from the list. But this can be faulty: GNU Emacs  
might use fontconfig (the user supplied side, which is able to provide  
the font's file name!). In the end the font can be part of the Lucida  
bitmap fonts in X11. Its size indicator points into this direction.  
Usually scalable or vector fonts can be deduced from their pixel and  
point size of 0 points.

> The result is here: http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/emacs/screenshot-4.jpg
> It seems pale and pixelized. Is this normal? What do you think?

To me only "(" and ")" look pixelised. This can be due to poor  
performance of the rendering engine in your X server.

> I don't know, if this font comes from Java. I get the fontnames from
> "xlsfonts".

Check which shared libraries your version of GNU Emacs uses! If  
libfontconfig is among them then it will use fontconfig and you have  
its utilities fc-list or fc-match. Some possible commands (in case  
you're new to this):

        fc-list :lang=el,ar,he | sort
        fc-list : file family lang
        fc-list : file lang spacing | grep spac | egrep 'lang=.*th'

> Can you reproduce the problems with efont?


I remember that I tried efont and had the same problem: the width of  
LCR (Latin, Cyrillic, Greek) glyphs was much too wide, maybe adapted  
to that of complex CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) glyphs. It might be  
OK for CJK use...


In my Mac OS X system the Lucida TrueType fonts are in /System/Library/ 
Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/<version>/Home/lib/fonts. File  
names: LucidaTypewriter*.ttf.


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  Pete

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