> From: "Drew Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 14:12:19 -0700 > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > One thing that's not clear to me is whether Emacs somehow makes additional > (X-Window) fonts available on Windows, besides the fonts installed in > C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\.
AFAIK, it just maps the names. The fonts you have are those installed on your system; Emacs cannot add anything to them (unless you install BDF fonts from GNU intlfonts). > Unfortunately, the Windows-specific aspects of the fonts > support are completely undocumented in the manuals; volunteers are > welcome. > > Perhaps that is something that could be pointed out to emacs-devel, if that > hasn't been done already. Has been done already, quite a few times. > AFAIK, S-mouse-1 shows the native Windows font names (unless you set > w32-use-w32-font-dialog to nil), while the other methods show X-style > font names. But I might be mistaken. > > Yes, that was my impression. Are both sets of fonts available on Windows in > Emacs? They are the same fonts, just named differently. Again, AFAIK. > In code that hopes to run on different platforms, should I stick to > `x-list-fonts', assuming that will give at least some of the > available fonts on the given platform That's what I do, and it works for me, although I didn't try all the possible combinations. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
