Re: Fonts from specified directory

[Javier]

N. Raghavendra <nyraghu27132@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to configure Emacs to use fonts from a specified
> directory?  My OS is Linux.  For instance, I have downloaded a version
> of DejaVu fonts that is more recent than the one provided by the OS, and
> have installed the new fonts as, say, /foo/dejavu/DejaVu*.ttf.  Is it
> possible to configure Emacs to use /foo/dejavu/DejaVu*.ttf instead of
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVu*.ttf?

/foo/dejavu/ should contain files fonts.dir, fonts.scale
Otherwise create them

    mkfontscale  /foo/dejavu/
    mkfontdir /foo/dejavu/

change the font path

    xset -fp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/
    xset +fp /foo/dejavu/
    xset fp rehash
        
and try

    emacs -fn fontname

The names are in fonts.dir