Control: tag -1 confirmed Christoph Reichenbach <creic...@gmail.com> writes:
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? > > Executing the following steps: > > - (customize-face 'default) > - Font Family: setting "Terminus (TTF)" > - Font Foundry: setting "PfEd" > - Optionally (does not affect outcome): > - Weight: setting "medium" > - Disabling any font attributes (inlcuding Weight) > - [Apply] [snip] > * What was the outcome of this action? > > Emacs used the "Purisa" font as default font. This font has the same Font > Foundry as "Terminus (TTF)" but is a "Comic Sans"-like special-purpose font > and unsuitable for normal operations. > For me, it is Fantasque Sans Mono, but I agree it is not selecting the correct font. The selected font seems non-deterministic, possibly state dependent. After some various choices of Mono font, I ended up with Can you duplicate the problem for other fonts? I tried 4 or 5 other monospaced fonts and they all seemed to work, at least in a fresh "emacs -Q". I observed that choosing some non-existing font name (e.g. FooBar) had more or less the same effect. So maybe the issue is just that emacs cannot find "Terminus (TTF)". A wild guess would be the parens in the name causing the problem. Apologies if this is covered already in your extensive report.
