From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3183 invoked by alias); 30 Sep 2009 12:55:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 3163 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Sep 2009 12:55:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from kuber.nabble.com (HELO kuber.nabble.com) (216.139.236.158) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:55:46 +0000 Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Msyie-0005L5-Jv for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:55:44 -0700 Message-ID: <25680512.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:55:00 -0000 From: Marc Girod To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GNU emacs fonts again In-Reply-To: <416096c60909300426n1ddc414ew95325489db8a1cb5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <25678987.post@talk.nabble.com> <416096c60909300426n1ddc414ew95325489db8a1cb5@mail.gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00093.txt.bz2 Hi Andy, Andy Koppe wrote: > > In case you want Lucida back: > Thanks, but no... This wasn't my question. In fact, I do have the package installed and up to date. Now, GNU emacs seemed to use it and doesn't anymore. I didn't change my settings. But, I liked the Lucida Sans Typewriter font on some unix in the past. It doesn't look at all so nice on my Vista box under cygwin. Different screen probably. Besides, there used to be some issues with the completeness of the full set... Support for some characters in some combinations... bold italic... Or just some non-standard naming that made some transitions fail... italic that was named oblique... I don't remember. I am not sure it affected me anymore lately. It did in the past when I used to run the w3 emacs browser. The point is that I lack a wider perspective to know what it the optimal solution, and thus to make a precise question. So far, it seems like how to tell emacs to get its default font narrower? How come is the medium Courier wider than the bold one? Isn't this an error? I can start emacs with: /usr/bin/emacs -fn lucidasanstypewriter-10 This however: - gives a setup in which the system font is unreadable (blocks). I know there must be an FAQ about that... - it doesn't look especially good (thick 'i's and '-'s) The list-fontsets function gives: Fontset: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-default Fontset: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard Fontset: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-14-*-100-100-m-80-fontset-startup BTW... lucidasanstypewriter-8 seems to find equivalents for the system. It is not nicer looking though. Fontset: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-default Fontset: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard Fontset: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-11-*-100-100-m-70-fontset-startup Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GNU-emacs-fonts-again-tp25678987p25680512.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/