From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Font problems in cygwinx
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 10:41:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11b9afa8-3fd4-9c71-1473-928b80ca4571@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1c2423a-e3db-7b74-d60f-a870ad24469b@bellsouth.net>
On 2021-07-02 22:33, Robert McBroom wrote:
> On 7/2/21 5:58 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2021-07-02 15:21, mcforum wrote:
>>> The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text
>>> in buffers is normal.
>>> What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs
>>> -w32 works.
>>
>> If you were using Windows fonts in Emacs, that could be caused by
>> Windows packages that decide it's a good idea to replace your existing
>> installed versions of Windows fonts by theirs e.g. LibreOffice updates
>> mess up the appearance of all my Windows, X, and Cygwin apps until I
>> reboot.
>>
>> It seems to be caused by their ancient installer approach and
>> aggressive font replacement policy.
>>
>> If something like that could be a cause of your problem, try rebooting
>> to see if that clears up the problem.
You could try restarting Windows, then rerunning setup to rerun the
postinstall scripts, to see if that fixes the font configuration.
> Used "Courier New" for years. Just a monospace font for data entry.
Do you know if that is the Windows Courier New, one of the MS TT Core
Fonts package, or one of the X aliases Liberation Mono, Cousine,
Cumberland, Cumberland AMT?
See:
$ cd /usr/share/fonts/
$ ls -glo {truetype/msttcore,win-}fonts/Cour*.ttf | cut -c35-
truetype/msttcorefonts/cour.ttf -> Courier_New.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/courb.ttf -> Courier_New_Bold.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/courbd.ttf -> Courier_New_Bold.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/courbi.ttf -> Courier_New_Bold_Italic.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/couri.ttf -> Courier_New_Italic.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/courz.ttf -> Courier_New_Bold_Italic.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New_Bold.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New_Bold_Italic.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New_Italic.ttf
win-fonts/cour.ttf
win-fonts/courbd.ttf
win-fonts/courbi.ttf
win-fonts/couri.ttf
also /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf:
<!--
Alias similar/metric-compatible families from various sources:
...
Microsoft... Liberation fonts: Google... StarOff... AMT fonts:
============ ================= ========= ========== ==============
...
Courier New Liberation Mono Cousine Cumberland Cumberland AMT
...
-->
...
<alias binding="same">
<family>Cousine</family>
<default>
<family>Courier New</family>
</default>
</alias>
...
<alias binding="same">
<family>Liberation Mono</family>
<default>
<family>Courier New</family>
</default>
</alias>
...
<alias binding="same">
<family>Cumberland</family>
<default>
<family>Courier New</family>
</default>
</alias>
...
<alias binding="same">
<family>Cumberland AMT</family>
<default>
<family>Courier New</family>
</default>
</alias>
...
<alias>
<family>Courier</family>
<default>
<family>Courier New</family>
</default>
</alias>
...
<alias>
<family>Courier New</family>
<default>
<family>Courier</family>
</default>
</alias>
...
<alias binding="same">
<family>Courier New</family>
<accept>
<family>Cousine</family>
<family>Liberation Mono</family>
<family>Cumberland</family>
<family>Cumberland AMT</family>
</accept>
</alias>
...
--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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2021-07-02 21:21 ` mcforum
2021-07-02 21:46 ` Ken Brown
2021-07-03 4:28 ` Robert McBroom
2021-07-03 15:53 ` Ken Brown
2021-07-02 21:58 ` Brian Inglis
2021-07-03 4:33 ` Robert McBroom
2021-07-03 16:41 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
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