On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:37:31AM +0000, s. keeling wrote: > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 01:47:04PM +0000, s. keeling wrote: > > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > emacs*font: fixed > > > > > > See if you have an app called xfontsel. It's a GUI point and click > > > interface to fonts. Note the "spc" column. For terminal fonts, "c" > > > and "m" apply. "p" is for proportional fonts, and don't work well in > > > > > > "fixed" is defined by the X Window system as the fallback default > > > non-proportional (aka. fixed) spacing font, but there's many others to > > > > My adventure began when I noticed that "fixed" provided a different > > font under xorg from the one I have been getting under xfree. From > > Well, first understand that we've pretty much plumbed the depths of my > knowledge of font lower levels. However, here's a couple that I have > left. You can get the same sort of strange behaviour by rearranging > the order of the FontPath lines in your X config file. I have: > > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" > > What does the "/:unscaled" mean? What happens when you put the 75dpi > lines before the 100dpi lines? > > What happens when you go from the above defining fonts for X, to > something like xfs (X Font Server) defining fonts for X? > > I thought a font was a simple matrix bitmap defining pixels to turn on > or off or shade or colorize. Smiple. No, beyond that little matrix > is a vast array of fantastically specialized machinery that does > magical things with that little matrix. BTW: > > Emacs*font: > -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-1
I like it! And I think I need to stop searching for my perfect emacs font and do some useful work. Thanks to all, I've learned a lot. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]