Grant Edwards <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2010-07-12, Allan Gottlieb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 2. The name you give "Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1"
>> looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like
>> "-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal...". You don't need to have DejaVu,
>> but I would advise getting either DejaVu or bitstream vera.
>
> OK, I've figured out that I do have both dejavu and bitstream vera
> fonts installed (but they weren't on the font path). Now "DejaVu
> Sans" does work. The problem is that emacs wants a font with a family
> name of "Sans Serif", and none of the installed fonts provide a family
> with that name.
That is funny since I don't do anything and it just works
(DejaVu is a family I think).
Indeed my default font is DejaVu Sans Mono.
The last "u" above gives the output below for C-U C-x =
Did you build emacs with xft support?
allan
character: u (117, #o165, #x75)
preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
code point: 0x75
syntax: w which means: word
category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman
buffer code: #x75
file code: #x75 (encoded by coding system utf-8-emacs)
display: by this font (glyph code)
xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-bold-normal-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
(#x58)
Character code properties: customize what to show
name: LATIN SMALL LETTER U
general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)
There is an overlay here:
From 1234 to 1240
evaporate t
face flyspell-duplicate
flyspell-overlay t
help-echo "mouse-2: correct word at point"
keymap [Show]
mouse-face highlight
There are text properties here:
fontified t
