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Re: problems with efont
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Peter Münster |
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Re: problems with efont |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:13:41 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) |
On Sun, Jan 03 2010, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
>> The result is here: http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/emacs/screenshot-4.jpg
>> It seems pale and pixelized. Is this normal? What do you think?
>
> To me only "(" and ")" look pixelised. This can be due to poor performance
> of the rendering engine in your X server.
Hello Peter,
Indeed, only the "(" and ")" look pixelised, but do you see also the thin
lines of the "m" compared to the other letters?
>> I don't know, if this font comes from Java. I get the fontnames from
>> "xlsfonts".
>
> Check which shared libraries your version of GNU Emacs uses! If
> libfontconfig is among them then it will use fontconfig and you have its
> utilities fc-list or fc-match. Some possible commands (in case you're new
> to this):
>
> fc-list :lang=el,ar,he | sort
> fc-list : file family lang
> fc-list : file lang spacing | grep spac | egrep 'lang=.*th'
Thank you for this hint! Now I've spent some more time on my font problem
with the following results:
- There weren't any Lucida fonts in my java installation, because my java
package came from OpenJDK. After installing the java package from Sun, I
found the LucidaTypewriter*.ttf files and fc-list shows them.
- Emacs is linked to fontconfig.
- With "emacs -fn 'Lucida Sans Typewriter'" I get a nice font, but too
small.
- I've discovered Menu-bar -> Options -> Set Default Font ...
(why only now and not earlier...???), where I could set the right
size (18) and save it to .gnu-emacs-custom
Do you know, how to set the size with command-line option or X-resources?
- For now, I'm quite satisfied with Lucida, but when I have some more time,
I'll look for a font with another height/width ratio (less height) to
get more lines on my screen... (with efont I got 5 more lines)
Thanks again for your answers!
Cheers, Peter
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