On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:11:17 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2010-07-12, Allan Gottlieb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You don't need to have DejaVu, but I would advise getting either > > DejaVu or bitstream vera. > > I guess I can install more fonts, but I was hoping I could point emacs > at one of the rougly 4000 I've already got. You can. I'm not sure why is that but it seems that your emacs is not able to find variable pitch font - "About emacs" screen and tooltips are using such font; normal edit buffers uses a fixed width font. To be more precise, they are using 'variable-pitch' face so you have to set font for that face. You can do that with 'M-x customize-face <RET> variable-pitch <RET>'. This displays a buffer where you can set the font. Note that 'customize-face' command offers you the face that is used to display a character on which the cursor is. So if you place the cursor on one of the empty boxes then 'M-x customize-face <RET>' should automatically offer you the 'variable-pitch' face. Regards, Robert -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: [email protected] Jabber: [email protected]
