** Also affects: emacs
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: emacs23
I've installed the "Ubuntu Beta Mono 17" font from https://launchpad.net
/~canonical-ux/+archive/walled-garden (currently a private PPA). If you
set your default system fixed width font to this (via Preferences ->
Appearance -> Fonts) and set the font size to 11, then start emacs from
the command line, you get the following early error message on the
console and Emacs does not start:
Font `Ubuntu Beta Mono 17 11' is not defined
Now starting emacs with "emacs --font monospace" will get the first
frame up, but then C-x 5 2 fails with the same error message in the
minibuffer. The font size doesn't matter, since if you use the default
12 point font, the '11' is replaced by '12' in the error message above.
Note that you can still use the font if you reset your system font to
monospace and then set Ubuntu Beta Mono 17 in your .emacs or via
customize on the default face.
After confirmation by colleagues, we think it's a font parsing bug in
Emacs. Using a system font of 'courier 10 pitch' does not cause the
problem, nor does using a font with a number at the end but with no
space between it and the preceding word. It appears as though ending
the font name in "[space][number]" causes the problem.
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+ Upstream bug report:
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+ http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7853
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Title:
Emacs won't start, complaining about font ending in a number
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